Death Quote by Homer

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then…

— Homer

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently…

— Seneca the Younger

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking…

— Edith Sitwell

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“When the flames are completely extinguished, craving is replaced by a state of perfect contentment and serenity, known as nirvana (the literal meaning of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The…

— Augusten Burroughs

And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can…

— Edward Giobbi

“preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames”

— Kathryn Shay

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

— Homer

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

— William Allingham