Death Quote by Anonymous

“Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano” is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola da gamba…

— Anonymous

“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony of death,…

— Grace Butcher

“The violin wasn't alive. It wasn't a baby or an animal, not living. But that would be easier to believe if I hadn't felt…

— Jessica Martinez

“What women wanted to be eaten alive, choked by a thrusting tongue? Not me, I wanted to be played like a violin, strummed pianissimo,…

— V.C. Andrews

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet

“I hummed love songs, silent love songs the words of which I’ve forgotten, sang to myself for nights on end, never tiring of praising…

— Helmut Krausser

“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The…

— Doug Bradley

“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard.... It began simply, but with an arresting phrase, so…

— Deanna Raybourn

“And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in…

— Italo Calvino

“There were sharp little blows in the music, and waves of quick, fine notes that burst and rolled like the thin, clear ringing of…

— Ayn Rand

“I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before…

— John Donne

“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn,…

— Jennifer Paynter