Death Quote by Wallace Stegner — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to”

“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”

“Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.”

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'”

“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.”

“Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.”

“He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.”

“Meine mutige Kämpferin. Fight death with all you have.”