“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer
The Calf-Path http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Calf_Path, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Source: Poetry and Craft (1965), p. 89
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
Kenzaburō Ōe book A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter (1964)
“Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism