Easter Quotes
The sources for this page are the faith, hope and spirituality pages, not a collection of Easter writing. A few entries do mention the day: Longfellow’s The Spanish Student (1843) sets a scene on a bright Easter Sunday with blossoming trees, and W. H. Auden, in A Certain World (1970), says Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry but Good Friday cannot, any more than Auschwitz.
Most of what else you find here is general. Expect devotional writers and poets, with sources and dates on every quote page. Anything flagged as disputed or misattributed carries a note that says what the editors turned up.
It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
Man holds an inward talk with his self alone, which it behooves him to regulate well.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people.
And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.