Norman Porteous - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)