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

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

“Before the beginning of years”

“From too much love of living”

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

“Everyone sounded the same when they died.”

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.”

“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.”

“Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.”

“…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth.”