John Masefield Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

I am scared of death.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

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

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

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

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Even death has a heart.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

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

To have died once is enough.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

The only thing that scares me is dying.