Gustave Flaubert Quotes

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Death is a fearful thing.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones

She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

Weep, for the light is dead.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.