Do not go gentle into that good night.
Meaning of the quote
The quote by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas encourages you not to give up or accept defeat easily, even when faced with difficult or challenging situations. It suggests that you should fight and resist against hardship or adversity, instead of passively accepting it. The quote encourages you to stay strong, determined, and unwilling to surrender, even in the face of life's challenges.
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More quotes from Dylan Thomas
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
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Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.
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An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
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Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
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But time has set its maggot on their track.
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
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Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. ‘Somebody’s boring me,’ he said, ‘I think it’s me.’
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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Though lovers be lost love shall not.
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When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
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Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
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