Death Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“And Iseult rose up where she sat apart, And with her sweet soul deepening her deep eyes Cast the furs from her and subtle…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths…

— Thomas Grey

“I had forged her myself, out of brokenness, learning to love wildness instead of fearing it. To thrive on the exhilaration of the hunt,…

— Paula McLain

“Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving…

— Jack Williamson

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“    All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,   All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,   All the dull,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I…

— Sappho

“Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities—something best described as a profound…

— E.M. Forester

“Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd,…

— George Gordon Byron