Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

I don't have to kill myself, time is going to do that.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Wait for them to die

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Life and hope must cease together.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

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

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.