Death Quote by Philip Larkin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

“Only in books the flat and final happens,”

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.”

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

“And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.”

“It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?”

“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”

“He Is Not Dead”

“I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.”