Quote by Sharon Olds Download Open image ““If I could choose, a place to die,” it would never have been in your arms, old darling”” — Sharon Olds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years…all those winters, summers…a hundred seasons… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“If I were dying when I should've, say in the late sixties, when I thought my head would explode with howling misery, when every time their father opened his fat mouth I thought I'd have to kill him, then – then I would've written the girls affectionate letters, telling them of my sadness, and how much I loved them, and… — Will Self Copy Share
“Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?” — Roger Lancelyn Green Copy Share Image
“I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“In those seconds, I was mourning everything I'd lost. How I'd never get to see you walk down an aisle toward me, how I'd… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“i can no longer hold you in my arms, oh, if i could've only foreknew after you there's nothing else worth to lose, i… — Amira Bouzidi Copy Share Image
“All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that… — Tess Oliver Copy Share Image
“I'd always thought death would be some sort of peaceful homecoming - a sweet, sad lullaby to usher me into whatever waited afterward.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Now would you die, for the one you love? Hold me in your arms, tonight — Enrique Iglesias Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
