Death Quote by Samuel Butler

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man…

— Edith Wharton

“Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical…

— James Joyce

“He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to…

— Henry van Dyke

“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for every visible…

— George Eliot

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love…

— Anita Shreve

For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He thinks that, even if you have a great idea, there have to be trials and tribulations, errors and failures, a dark night of…

— Charles Yu

“He would bear the weight of the inevitable in the same stoic manner he had borne it before, etched indelibly into the infinite fabric…

— Eva Vanrell

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion…

— Ian Mcewan

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a…

— Thomas Wolfe