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

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Time has transfigured them into”

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

“When I throw back my head and howl”

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:”

“There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!”

“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go.”

“A fool I was to sleep at noon,”

“A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.”

“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.”

“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain would I lay down my miserable life, for I envy those who enjoy the quiet of the Grave: But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean; The Waves throw me back with abhorrence upon the shore: I rush into fire; The flames recoil at my approach: I oppose myself to the fury of Banditti; Their swords become blunted, and break against my breast: The hungry Tiger shudders at my approach, and the Alligator flies from a Monster more horrible than itself. God has set his seal upon me, and all his Creatures respect this fatal mark!”