Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Isn't it funny that God takes you and puts you through the unendurable, and then, at the moment you have just begun to understand it and have some wisdom, it ends?

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

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.

To have died once is enough.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.