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Death Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable…
- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
- Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death…
- Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits…
- There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that…
- There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
- Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
- And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not…
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