Famous Quotes | I work all day, and get...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
- Philip Larkin
Attribution: Philip Larkin (1922–1986), British poet. “Aubade.”
Categories: Death, Fear
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