DEATH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 It is death if it stands still.
2 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
3 'To touch the fence is instant death,' pronounced the Warden solemnly.
4 Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda's death.
5 All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.
6 Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death and danger dare, even for an egg-shell.
7 The moon was behind him; he looked down into the black shadow of the mesa, into the black shadow of death.
8 They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as they advance in years.
9 The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon, moaned in the alto and tenor registers as though the little death were upon them.
10 In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.
11 But all the same,' insisted the Savage, 'it is natural to believe in God when you're alone--quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
12 He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death.
13 But his mind was elsewhere--with death, with his grief, and his remorse; mechanically, without consciousness of what he was doing, he began to shoulder his way through the crowd.
14 Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded--bud out of bud out of bud were thereafter--further arrest being generally fatal--left to develop in peace.
15 They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.
16 Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.
17 He realized to his dismay that, absorbed in the whittling of his bow, he had forgotten what he had sworn to himself he would constantly remember--poor Linda, and his own murderous unkindness to her, and those loathsome twins, swarming like lice across the mystery of her death, insulting, with their presence, not merely his own grief and repentance, but the very gods themselves.
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