Philip Larkin

Family Quotes

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. -
Philip Larkin
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Death Quotes

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

Death Quotes

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
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Death Quotes

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

Death Quotes

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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