Death Quote by Franz Wright — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.”

“And let me ask you this: the dead,”

“I basked in you;”

“Whilst the wolflets bayed,”

“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

“Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.”

“I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.”