Zachary Macaulay quotes

“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.”
-- Zachary Macaulay

#Country Quotes #Agony Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”

“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”

“Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.”

“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”

“As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.”

“In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.”

“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”

Source : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”