Death Quote by James Baldwin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have”

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”

“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”

“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth.”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...”

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”

“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.”

“The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.”

“The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.”