“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us”
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
The Hollow Men (1925)
The Hollow Men (1925)
“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us”
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
The Hollow Men (1925)
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere.
That is what is. Who will say, "That is what must be!"
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html <br class="br">Essays
“I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
Variant: The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).
Source: Anthem
“We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”
Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992) English author
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Speech 11/19/2003 Whitehall Palace, London http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040126-6.html <br class="br">2000s, 2003