DEATH in Classic Quotes

1  However, she's tired to death now, and not at all well, and that's what makes her so restless.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble

2  It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country

3  All I know is that, as I was going along the road this morning, about a mile out of Anglebury, I heard something trotting after me like a doe, and looking round there she was, white as death itself.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road

4  Shadowy eye-sockets, deep as those of a death's head, suddenly turned into pits of lustre: a lantern-jaw was cavernous, then it was shining; wrinkles were emphasized to ravines, or obliterated entirely by a changed ray.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country

5  But the musician did his best; adopted his wife's name, made England permanently his home, took great trouble with his child's education, the expenses of which were defrayed by the grandfather, and throve as the chief local musician till her mother's death, when he left off thriving, drank, and died also.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night

6  A condition of healthy life so nearly resembling the torpor of death is a noticeable thing of its sort; to exhibit the inertness of the desert, and at the same time to be exercising powers akin to those of the meadow, and even of the forest, awakened in those who thought of it the attentiveness usually engendered by understatement and reserve.

Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble