Djuna Barnes Quotes

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Every single house has had death visit.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

Blood and death. That moves me.

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

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

To have died once is enough.

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

A death is the most terrible of facts.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

Death laid its eggs in the wound

L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

it's just another way to die