May Sarton Quotes

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.