Death Quote by Anne Carson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.”

“LIII.”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM”

“That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted”

“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.”

“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.”

“Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.”

“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes”

“Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.”

“I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.”