Stevie Smith Quotes

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar) I don’t know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn’t really fit, does it? Besides, I can’t make things too easy on you. What’s life without pain? (Sin)

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.