Llywelyn The Great Quotes

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one.

Concealed within the stones are frozen fires. Borne on vast waves of polychrome gas that attracted, discarded, formed, and reformed patterns of infinite complexity, the living sparks had taken their allotted places. They were burning before the beginning. They will burn after the end. Their fire is impervious to time. Time is a human concept. Creation is on a different scale. Every spark was a syllable spoken into silence, a miniscule portion of the great Word that became a roar of limitless power and exploded to create a universe. From chaos, cosmos.

exactly, ‘I think a curse should rest on me—because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment—and yet—I can’t help it—I enjoy every second of it.

Oscar Wilde once said, ‘Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion

powerful it can starve a whole continent. You wield the greatest aggregate of material force ever concentrated in the hands of one power; and, while canting about your championship of small nations, you use it to crush out liberty in ours. We are a small people with a population dwindling without cessation under your rule. Nevertheless, we accept your challenge and will fight you with the same determination, with the same resolve, as the American States, north and south, put into their fight for freedom against your empire.”4

The Irish loved gossip even more than funerals.

Going for a little journey around the inside of my head,

Constance, Countess Markievicz,

element in men…in some men…that requires a battle. Combat is how they define themselves, and when such men rise to leadership they can indulge their passion. If they didn’t have this war, they would manufacture another one.

Like the river, we sparkle more in sunshine, but our strength comes from the rain’?

In 1912 Henry had summed up the situation in the last article he wrote while working for the Limerick Leader: “Ireland has no strong voice to demand justice for her people in Westminster or anywhere else. Frustrated on every level, the ordinary Irish man and woman feels the pressure mounting inexorably. Living

The air was liquid spice.

plenipotentiary.

Dalton, James Emmet (1998–1978): Former major in the British Army; director of training for the IRA in 1921; aide and advisor to Michael Collins; in charge of the bombardment of the Four Courts; briefly clerk of Seanad Éireann; later, made a film career in Hollywood and London. Deasy,

in 1800 Great Britain subsumed Ireland through the Act of Union, abolishing the Irish parliament, and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland came into being.

The Rising was funded largely by American sympathizers acting through the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Will so many uncushioned facts piled upon one another eventually erect an emotional wall between the event and the observer, so that people no longer feel an individual responsibility?