Death Quote by Ford Madox Ford

“As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He is just like other people to…

— Eudora Welty

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe…

— Amy Lane

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“How intimately I experience in my heart just what he must have felt in all of those unknown rooms, some of them poor, perhaps,…

— Anna Kavan

“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.”

— T S Eliot

“He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. But”

— Richard Flanagan

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

“I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in some moment…

— Henry Miller