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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.

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Most quoted on easter:

Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

Elie Wiesel

'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone,
Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness,
The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.
That only, and that amply this performs.

Edward Young

Soul is the Man: for who will so
The body name?
And to that power all grace we owe
That decks our living frame.

Thomas Campion

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each soul enters the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defects of its past lives. Its place in this world is determined by past virtues and shortcomings.

Origen

Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. p.83

Hermann Hesse Journey to the East (1932)

Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.

Novalis Blüthenstaub (1798)

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

Woody Allen The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)

My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

Elbert Hubbard The Better Part (1901)

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone.

Omar Khayyám FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton Tractate of Education (1644)

Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.

G. I. Gurdjieff All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine,
My life and death attend;
Thy presence through my journey shine,
And crown my journey's end.

Anne Steele

See the person's eating and cooking, and then you can judge his or her spirituality.

Michio Kushi Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

I once had an understanding that everything would go my way
But now we’ve come too far along for me to hold on to my own beliefs.

Charlotte Wessels

All of magic essentially involves sneaking something you want past reality while it’s distracted and looking the other way.

Naomi Novik Scholomance fantasy series (2020)

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

Neil Gaiman

* * * But while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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