Danny Boy Quotes

“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say Ave there for me,
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me”
― Frederic Weatherly

“It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.”
― Church of Scotland

“Life's funny like that."
"A laugh a minute."
She put on Danny Boy so I could sing it again.

But if you fall as all flowers'er dying,
And you are, as dead you well may be,
I'll come and find the place where you are lying,
And kneel and say an ave there for thee.
but come ye back when summer's in―

The second time through made me terribly sad.
"send me letters from wherever it is you're going," she said, touching me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World