Savage

Famous quotes containing the word savage:

“I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man’s bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“O what a thing is age! Death without death’s quiet.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)