Quotes About Death In As I Lay Dying

#1. I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.

William Shakespeare

#2. Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

L.A. Paul

#3. Say to the darkness, "We beg to differ!"

Mary Jo Leddy

#4. I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.

Don DeLillo

#5. Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions.

Laura Kreitzer

#6. Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way.

Jacqueline Obradors

#7. People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Michael Thomas Ford

#8. There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

Julius Nyerere

#9. I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

Kyp Malone

#10. If this is death, Guild Hunter, then I will see you on the other side." He'd said that to her as she lay dying in his arms. Now, she whispered, "Wherever you go, I'll follow." She'd lost too many people she loved, survived too much death.

Nalini Singh

#11. Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

Victor Hugo

#12. But when I am due ...
Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,

Mpho Leteng

#13. Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out?
She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.

Kerry Greenwood

#14. He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.

Andrew Levkoff

#15. Life is an endless circle within God. From before birth to beyond the transition called death, I am filled with life. My soul wears this earth garment I call my body, which I cherish and care for. When I finally lay it down, my soul continues to live, always in God's care and keeping.

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