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

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

“Who shall tell the lady's grief”

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

“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,”

“I lock my door upon myself,”

“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.”

“I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.”

“Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.”

“Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.”

“If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...”

“There is no remedy for death—or birth—except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”