Elegy Quotes

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. (José Rizal)
I will not give you an elegy - words to stir your hearts as our beloved Gaelic slowly fades away. And I will not be prescribing palliative care. View quote
Alex Salmond
Among them pert-faced Elegy draws near. View quote
Statius
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a "peace race". If we have the will and determination to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy. View quote
Oscar Levant
Elegy to Lin Zhao, Lone Voice of Chinese Freedom. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. View quote
David Whyte
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it. View quote
Jacqueline Woodson
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. View quote
Ovid
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy. View quote
George Gershwin