"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

Mortality, Death, Intention, Desire, Darkness

17

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

Exlpore more Mortality quotes

"Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!)."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Mortality, Death, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Life, Meaning

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Dream, Violence, Memory

"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."

Eckhart Tolle, German Author

Mortality, Life, Death, Meaning

"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Mortality, Death, Fear, Life

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Fear, Life, Acceptance

"I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be."

Robin Gibb, English Musician

Mortality, Wonder, World

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Mortality, Death, Life, Speed, Reflection

"A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Mortality, Life, Death, Learning, Journey

"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Mortality, Burden, Life, Memory, Existence

Explore more quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

Life

"There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world."

Mystery

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."

Nothing

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

Character

"No violence, gentlemen - no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!"

Humor

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

Woman

"You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable."

Writing

"Anything is better than stagnation."

Growth

"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."

Society

"Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?''What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?''For my education, Holmes.''Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."

Education