Robinson Jeffers Quotes

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.