"Death had no lips, but it was smiling" — Franny Billingsley
"Death had no lips, but it was smiling"
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Franny Billingsley
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
Franny Billingsley has 67 quotes on this site.
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks.…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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More Death Quotes
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one of 13,020 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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