Stevie Smith Quotes

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

We see death constantly on film.

Death's in the good-bye.

I am scared of death.

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

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

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

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

Death is the great transition.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Death is a fearful thing.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

To have died once is enough.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.