Neruda Death Quotes & Sayings

Is the bed comfortable? Please say no. Just give me any reason to get you in my bed. — Elizabeth Finn

Only wings evade death. Neruda says so.' As he turns the page he looks at Zara and makes his bright blue eyes big. 'And Neruda knows.' He reaches for his pipe.

Zara stares at him for some time. 'Was he a friend of God?'

Who? Neruda?'

Yes.'

He may have been, I'm not sure, petite. For all we know he may even have been God. — Susan Mann

A slight hiss built into a deafening roar of rushing air as the outer hatchway opened onto an empty blackness studded with tiny, impossibly bright points of light. Ford and Arthur popped into outer space like corks from a toy gun. — Douglas Adams

If you no longer live,
if you my beloved, my love,
if you have died,
all the leaves will fall in my breast,
it will rain in my soul night and day,
the snow will burn my heart,
I shall walk with frost and fire and death
and snow,
my feet will want to walk to where you
are sleeping, but
I shall live — Pablo Neruda

Fear envelops bones like new skin,
envelops blood with night's skin,
the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet -
it is not your hair but the terror in your head,
like long hair made of vertical nails,
and what you see are not shattered streets,
but rather, within you, your own crushed walls,
your frustrated infinity, again the city comes
crashing down: in your silence, only water's threat
is heard, and in the water
drowned horses gallop through your death. — Pablo Neruda

The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency. — Machado De Assis

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. — George Jellinek

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life — Pablo Neruda

That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that?
Ryder asked.
Owen replied, "Hence the name."
The name of Ryder's dog ... Dumbass ... — Nora Roberts

Death arrives among all that sound
like a shoe with no foot in it,
like a suit with no man in it,
comes and knocks,
using a ring with no stone in it,
with no finger in it,
comes and shouts with no mouth,
with no tongue,with no throat.
Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree. — Pablo Neruda

Death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows:
blows a dark sound that swells the sheets
and beds are sailing into a harbor
where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral — Pablo Neruda

Longing that sliced my breast into pieces,
it is time to take another road, on which she does not smile.
Storm that buried the bells, muddy swirl of torments, why touch her now, why make her sad.
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew. — Pablo Neruda

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive. — Pablo Neruda

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. — Sai Baba

The bloody dagger thrust through his palm, it quivered there. It's tip grazed her shirt turning the fibers brilliant red. — Cathrina Constantine

Do the truth quietly without display. — Brennan Manning

I just thought we'd be doing something ... " "Bigger?" Prophet asked, and without waiting, said, "Saving lives is always big." "There's no one to save, Prophet." It took everything Prophet had not to punch Tom. "There's always someone to save. — S.E. Jakes

Opened his door. "That's not what I - " "Is that my baby?" Carol Matthews stepped from the screen — Cate Beauman

I f nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life. — Pablo Neruda

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout. — Pablo Neruda

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986] — Jorge Luis Borges

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? — Lawren Harris

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. — Julian Assange

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens. — Pablo Neruda

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings. — Damien Hirst