Marjorie Holmes Quotes

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.