"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

Death, Despair, Will, Wrong

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

Exlpore more Death quotes

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Children, Soldiers, Sons

"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

John Green, American Author

Death, Denial, Life, Existence

"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father's paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father's hand. 'What's this?' he asked, raising a brow. 'You'll need it to sign my death certificate, ' I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. 'Are we done now? (Eric)"

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

Death, Emotion, Despair, Loss, Pain

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Death, Society, Time, Fact

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Death, Life, Reality, Truth

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Death, Dying

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

John Green, American Author

Death, Learning, Word, Legacy

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Death, Creation, Existence, Horror

Explore more quotes by J. B. Priestley

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

Genius

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

Society

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

Time

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."

Society

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

Life

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

Talent

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

Happiness

26

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Death quotes

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

Explore more quotes by J. B. Priestley

"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

"Western man is schizophrenic."

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."