Death Quote by Mark Doty — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”

“What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?”

“And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .”

“Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.”

“Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.”

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”

“When the dead do walk seek water's run,”

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”