Death Quote by Christina Rossetti — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Promise me no promises,”

“Give me the lowest place: not that I dare”

“Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.”

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.”

“He feeds upon her face by day and night,”

“For I am bound with fleshly bands,”

“It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.”

“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”

“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”

“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time — so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”

“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”