Quotes by Spark, Muriel

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on >>

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're >>

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to >>

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. >>

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatev >>

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

Spark, Muriel