Approaching death Quote by Petrarch

“Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship,…

— Helen Garner

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

“Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious”

— Yann Martel

“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

— Jasper Fforde

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.”

— Dan Brown

“The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of…

— Marcus Aurelius

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try to live by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people,…

— E.M. Forster

“Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.”

— Cath Crowley