A. E. Housman Quotes

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

Life and hope must cease together.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

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

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

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

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.