John Burdett Quotes

'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Spring is very energising to me.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.