Quote by Ned Rorem Download Open image ““We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal. ”” — Ned Rorem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they’ll love us… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I believe love conquers hate, faith overcomes despair, and that life is stronger than death." Wickedly They Come” — Cathrina Constantine Copy Share Image
“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
