“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

— Dodie Smith, book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever." by Dodie Smith?

Dodie Smith49

English novelist and playwright 1896–1990

Related quotes

“Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“But when I do think about religious problems, I think in Hindu categories. When my father died, it was the first time something really terrible happened to me-and Christianity and Judaism were of absolutely no use to me. My Jewish and Christian friends would take me to synagogues and churches, and it didn't help at all. And then I started thinking about the myths I was translating at the time, which were about death-why there is death, how death came into the world, what happens when we die, speculations about karma and rebirth. The Hindu version of it made more sense to me than anything. It just seemed like Shiva as a god was more likely to be responsible for the world the way I knew it than the gods of Judaism and Christianity. Capricious, beautiful, violent, it just made more sense.”

Wendy Doniger (1940) American Indologist

About her intent to practice Hinduism.
Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus

“She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“To this man life is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“I'm happier than the morning sun,
And that's the way you said that it would be,
If I should ever bring you inside my life.”

Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician

Happier Than The Morning Sun
Song lyrics, Music of My Mind (1972)

“Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Pt. 2, Ch. 5 - p.139
Giovanni's Room (1956)

“Such death makes happier end
than conquests of huge realms or infinite gold.”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

Felice e cotal morte e scempio,
Via più ch' acquisto di province e d'oro.
Canto VIII, stanza 44 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

“It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 482
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Dodie Smith49

Related quotes

Related topics