"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."

Mortality, Love, Death, Shame, Prison

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."

Exlpore more Mortality quotes

"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Mortality, Life, Days, Fleeting

"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Mortality, Death, Madness, Life, Fear

"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Mortality, Country, Youth, Death, Aging

"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Existence, Question, Life

"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Mortality, Focus, Clarity, Awareness

"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Mortality, Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

Patrick Ness, American Author

Mortality, Death, Loss, Observation, Emotion

"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Mortality, Silence, Death, Reflection, Peace

"Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Mortality, Life, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

"This is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Mortality, Death, Memory, Loss, Impact

Explore more quotes by Oscar Wilde

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

Sister

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Fashion

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

Income

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."

Prison

"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."

Philosophy

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Friendship

"Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."

Tragedy

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

Idea

"I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses."

Society

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Man