Korczak Ziolkowski quotes

Korczak Ziolkowski quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'”
-- Korczak Ziolkowski

#World Quotes #Life Is Quotes
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
-- Korczak Ziolkowski

#Lying Quotes #Land Quotes #Buried Quotes

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”
“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”
“Life is an incurable disease.”

Source : "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

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