Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded. ”

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to. ”

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ”

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ”

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. ”

Death is the beginning of something. ”

Death does not exist. ”

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. ”

Death, only, renders hope futile. ”

Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure. ”