Carl Auer Von Welsbach - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“How I envy you death;
what could death bring,
more black, more set with sparks
to slay, to affright,
than the memory of those first violets.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“They are girls. Green girls.
Death and life is their daily work.
Death seams up and down the leaf.
I call the leaves my death girls.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)