Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. ”

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ”

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”

Thinking you're a genius is death. ”

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing. ”

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud. ”

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. ”

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. ”

You don't get to choose what your legacy is. ”