Death Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“you will never catch up.”

“Kindness”

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.”

“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,”

“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”

“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.”

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.”

“No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.”