Famous quotes containing the words elysian fields, elysian, fields and/or performed:
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Forget about the precious sight
of my lover’s face
that steals away my heart.
Just seeing the borders
of the fields on the borders
of her village
gives me instant joy.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)