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Death Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
- The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful…
- When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
- The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
- For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre,…
- You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals…
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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