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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... ”

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What will survive of us is love.

~ Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin Death Love

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

Philip Larkin Death Love Time

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 Achievement Death Time Passing

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 Death