John Clare Quotes

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.