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Quotes About Elysian

Only if you're from L.A. do you know Elysian Park.
~ Roy Choi
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
~ Ellen Hopkins
He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still to be done; two sentences turned into one, one sentence broken into two, the substitution of a slightly resistant adjective to engender a moment's reflection, in short, the joys of editing, all carried out without forgetting the art that disguises art.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
pulled out into the Chavez Ravine Road, headed toward Elysian Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. We'd driven
~ Richard S. Prather
His spirit was sweeping like the wind over Elysian Fields and flashing into point after point on celestial quail.
~ John Taintor Foote
THERE IS NO DEATH! WHAT SEEMS SO IS TRANSITION; THIS LIFE OF MORTAL BREATH IS BUT A SUBURB OF THE LIFE ELYSIAN, WHOSE PORTAL WE CALL DEATH. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Eugene O'Kelly
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
~ H.W. Brands
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
~ Tennessee Williams
There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead,--the child of our affection,-- But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. Excerpt from the poem Resignation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rubbing noses with me, she laughed, and I swear the Elysian night sang with the sound of it.
~ Jovee Winters
Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?" Dean "Because that would be bad for business?" From Summon the Keeper
~ Tanya Huff
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
~ Walker Percy
The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.
~ Homer
There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
~ Unknown
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
~ Tennessee Williams
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
~ Walker Percy