
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
Source: The Masterpiece
homily of J-P II at Radom military base in Warsaw, Poland on June 4, 1991.
Source: Unborn Word of the Day http://unbornwordoftheday.com/2007/07/13/jpii-revealed-heartfelt-pain-about-abortion-to-his-countrymen/
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
Source: The Masterpiece
“I am a cemetery loathed by the moon.”
Je suis un cimetière abhorré de la lune.
"Spleen (II)" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Spleen_%282%29
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
Source: Paris Spleen
1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/rabin-lecture.html (10 December 1994)
Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France (23 January 1967), quoted in The New York Times (24 January 1967), p. 12.
Prime Minister
“Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.”
Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013) http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/rights-expert-urges-the-un-general-assembly-to-adopt-a-more-decisive-role-in-peace-making-for-international-day-of-peace-saturday-21-september-2013/.
2013, 2013 - International Peace Day
“If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”
As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1977) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
Context: If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Geological Sketches (1870), ch. 2, p. 31 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044018968388;view=1up;seq=49