Death Quote by Anna Akhmatova — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You will hear thunder and remember me,”

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”

“I have a lot of work to do today;”

“This cruel age has deflected me,”

“I asked him then: 'What are you after?'”

“As the future ripens in the past,”

“One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will”

“To live is to be vulnerable. A thin membrane of a soap bubble separates one from impenetrable hell. Ice on the road. The unlucky division of an aging cell. A child picks up a pill from the floor. Words stick to each other, line up, obedient to the great harmony of speech...”

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”

“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”

“He wasn’t ready for death, but if it came today, he would face it with his head held high and Alexander Lightwood’s name on his lips.”

“You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls.”