8 Quotes about Death by Philip Larkin (Free list)

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Philip Larkin quotes about death

What will survive of us is love.

— Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

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Time has transfigured them intoUntruth. The stone fidelityThey hardly meant has come to beTheir final blazon, and to proveOur almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.

— Philip Larkin

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I’m terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I ‘do’ anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on ‘time’s – it doesn’t of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn’t matter if you’ve done anything or not.

— Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself…

— Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

— Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

— Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

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Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?You seem to ask.I make a sharp reply, Then clean my stick. I’m glad I can’t explainJust in what jaws you were to suppurate:You may have thought things would come right againIf you could only keep quite still and wait.

— Philip Larkin

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Most things may never happen: this one will.

— Philip Larkin, Aubade

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life is first boredom, then fear.whether or not we use it, it goes, and leaves what something hidden from us chose, and age, and then the only end of age.

— Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings and Selected Poems of Philip Larkin

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