W Quotes
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“When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.”
“When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.”
Source: Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
“When I Am Dead, My Dearest
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress-tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now”
Source: Rivers to the Sea
“When I am dead, I am certain that the imprint of my love will be found on my heart. It is impossible to worship as I do without leaving some visible trace behind when life is over.”
Source: Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
“When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.”
“When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me”
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.”
“When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.”
Source: Life and Speeches
“When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.”
“When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.”
“When I am divided within myself, when I am so preoccupied with my own sins, egocentricity, and moral failures that I cannot hear the anguished cry of others, then I have subtly reestablished self as the center of my focus and concern.”
Source: Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning
“When I am doing a physical security audit during a penetration test, I just carry a box toward the door of the building; invariably people will hold the door open for someone carrying something. It is just human nature and is an easy way for a hacker to bypass security measures.”
Source: CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide
“When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.”
“When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you.”
“When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"”
“When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.”
Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.”
Source: The God Delusion
“When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.”
“When I am encouraged, I never see obstacles in my way, only exciting challenges.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Love: 100 channeled affirmations and quotes to attract true love into your life
“When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.”
Source: Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There
“When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.”
“When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.”
“When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.”
“When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen
all you have to do is take your clothes off
and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness
that we are flesh and breathe and are near us
as you are really as you are I become as I
really am alive and knowing vaguely what is
and what is important to me above the intrusions
of incident and accidental relationships
which have nothing to do with my life”
“when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns”
Source: On Cats
“When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.”
“When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.”
“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it”
“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”
“When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.”
“When I am fooled into believing that I possess the power to take that which is evil and somehow draw a greater good out of it, I will do no more than draw out an evil that is greater still. For only God possesses that kind of power, and I am not Him.”
“When I am full, I stop eating.”
“When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can’t sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.”
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
“When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.”
“When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.”
Source: Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“When I am gone,
break the night.
Set my remains on fire,
so I can still be your light.
For I am forever indebted to you.
O people of the world,
O love,
I am eternally yours.”
“When I am gone,
Celebrate not October 9th,
as the day Naskar was born.
Celebrate it if you so desire,
as the World Day of Integration.
Tie a bracelet of assimilation,
amongst buddies across culture.
Pledge to have each other's back,
even if deemed tradition's traitor.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“When I am gone,
may the dust of me
settle on unknown shores..
carried by winds
I never felt,
under skies
I never touched..
so that, at last,
I may belong to everywhere.”
“When I am gone, release me, let me go.
I have so many things to see and do,
You mustn't tie yourself to me with too many tears,
But be thankful we had so many good years.
I gave you my love, and you can only guess
How much you've given me in happiness.
I thank you for the love that you have shown,
But now it is time I traveled on alone.
So grieve for me a while, if grieve you must,
Then let your grief be comforted by trust.
It is only for a while we must part,
So treasure the memories within your heart.
I won't be far away for life goes on.
And if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you can't see or touch me, I will be near.
And if you listen with your heart, you'll hear,
All my love around you soft and clear.
And then, when you come this way alone,
I'll great you with a smile and a "Welcome Home.”
“When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU!”
“When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.”
“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”
“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf