John Masefield Quotes

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

I wait for death and journalists.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

All in all, death is something like marriage.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

Death is very, very terminal.