Virgil Quote

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. - Virgil

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

Death

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The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. - Virgil

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. - Jean Racine

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. - Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

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Each instant of life is a step toward death. - Pierre Corneille

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. - Sophocles

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. - Annie Lennox

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day. - Paulo Coelho

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. - Voltaire

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. - Walt Whitman

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well. - Henrik Ibsen

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

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I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up. - Kevin Costner

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

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One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. - Jean Cocteau

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. - William Faulkner

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

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I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. - Brigitte Bardot

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

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