Death Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart”

“Today will die tomorrow.”

“Before the beginning of years”

“At the door of life, by the gate of breath,”

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.”

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,”

“Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.”

“When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.”

“She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.”