Death Quote by Denis Johnson

“I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and…

— Emily Brontë

“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives…

— Marcel Proust

“We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or…

— Emil Cioran

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”

— Kendare Blake

“It makes me wonder which tendencies are decided by birth, and which by desire.”

— Karen Hawkins

“The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.”

— Rajeev Kurapati

“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t know? You…

— Edouard Levé

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers…

— Michael Ondaatje

“I started out believing that life was made just so the world would have some way to think about itself, but that it had…

— Toni Morrison