Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 396
Source: The Hearing Trumpet
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 396
“One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
On death and the nightly resurrection of the slain on Valhal, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller.
“If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”
Jean Améry (1912–1978) Austrian essayist
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine Partnow, p. 399
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
As quoted in Contemporary Quotations (1954) by James Beasley Simpson
Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
1952. Quoted in I. Bernard Cohen: Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. 1999. MIT Press. p. 292. And I. Bernard Cohen: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20.3 pp. 27–33. (1998)