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Death Quotes by Henry Miller
- The world is the mirror of myself dying.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,…
- What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt…
- There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us…
- ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The…
- I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying…
- I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light…
- But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you…
- Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death…
- Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden