Affected Quote by John Ruskin

“After Death nothing is, and nothing, death, The utmost limit of a gasp of breath. Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of…

— John Wilmot

The Last of my kind, standing on the edge of extinction. This hollow World, will notice not, my passing, nor care. As my exquisite…

— Eric Nickel

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at…

— Charles Dickens

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“A path of destruction no one saw coming; the sweetest, most violent deaths carried out with the gentlest of smiles on our faces and…

— Tillie Cole

The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war,…

— John Donne

Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and…

— Pablo Neruda

“Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the…

— Michel Foucault

“It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it a dull…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Were the last words that I wrote for you, enough to tell you. That in my death, the light that shone through my painful…

— Alesana

“All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.”

— Mahavira