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153. “I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.”
Sylvia Plath
Symbolism, Reflection, Mortality, Identity, Connection, Memory
154. “Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.” Sylvia Plath Temporal Passage, Mortality, Fleeting Moments, Existence, Fleeting Joy, Emotional Struggle
155. “People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.” Sylvia Plath Mortality, Insignificance, Emotional Expression, Writing As Refuge, Impermanence, Introspection
168. “Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.” Herman Melville Death Acceptance, Sailor Mindset, Life Philosophy, Carefree Attitude, Mortality, Courage
172. “For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, “and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.”” Henry Miller Death, Despair, Mortality, Life, Struggle, Fear
Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors
153. “I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.”
Sylvia Plath Symbolism, Reflection, Mortality, Identity, Connection, Memory
154. “Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”
Sylvia Plath Temporal Passage, Mortality, Fleeting Moments, Existence, Fleeting Joy, Emotional Struggle
155. “People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.”
Sylvia Plath Mortality, Insignificance, Emotional Expression, Writing As Refuge, Impermanence, Introspection
168. “Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.”
Herman Melville Death Acceptance, Sailor Mindset, Life Philosophy, Carefree Attitude, Mortality, Courage
172. “For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, “and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.””
Henry Miller Death, Despair, Mortality, Life, Struggle, Fear
