Death Quote by Robert Penn Warren — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it is more blessed to kill than to be killed.”

“For what blessing may a man hope for but”

“And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace”

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

“But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.”

“In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.”

“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”

“We have nothing that is really our own; we hold everything as a loan.”

“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“He: What’s the matter with you?”

“But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.”