A Quote by W. H. Auden

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

Quote Topics

Acts Between Bones Done Each Each One History Injustice Lie Like Rising Setting Sun

Quote Author

W. H. Auden
English - Poet
February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

Sharan Burrow

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

James Madison

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

Rabindranath Tagore

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Dick Gregory

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

Friedrich Nietzsche

More people worship the rising than the setting sun

Pompey

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

David Jeremiah

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Crews

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

Plutarch

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.