Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

Selected Poems

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Selected Poems

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The Stormy Petrel

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

Seeing Redd

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.

Song of Solomon

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Selected Stories

Life was still sprouting in him—over the sharp rocks and right on the nose of a cliff, he was yet far from death.

Tomris: October 1942

You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Life’s a bitch and then you die and death’s a bitch too. Only my life was lovely and I miss it so much.

Thicker Than Blood

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

... If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.

Treachery in Death

Mothers cry in anguish and fathers curse in anger, while others turn away in sadness, all for the children who are lost.

A Thousand Deaths

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

Paris in April

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The Premature Burial

permanent living peace is permanent living death.

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

Promises in Death

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Principal Doctrines

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

In Place of Fear