Body Quote by Anna Akhmatova

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when…

— Anonymous

“Summer died under the weight of fallen leaves and autumn filled up the ruts in the road with rainwater like blood filling fresh clawmarks.”

— Geraldine McCaughrean

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

— Anne Tyler

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“During construction, when a worker died, his body was built right into the Wall itself. No one knew how many corpses lay within the…

— Gordon Korman

Do not be anxious about anything, or tell me if by being anxious you can add a single hour to his span of life?

— Senoraroy

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you…

— Sarah Young

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

— William Wordsworth

“It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a…

— William Ellery Channing

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

— Sara Teasdale

“They all had to do something: they had to make a start in life; they had to go through life. Even though a single…

— Herman Koch