"Death by starvation is slow." — Mary Hunter Austin

"Death by starvation is slow."

— Mary Hunter Austin

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19 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except…
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is…
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of…
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
No man can be stronger than his destiny.
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and…
What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see…
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where…

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More Death Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
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
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a… — Karen Armstrong
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -… — Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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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