Home » Quote » Elizabeth Barrett Browning » „Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning.“ „Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning.“ — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tags:DeathLife Related quotes „The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.“ — Gertrude Stein „Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.“ — H.L. Mencken „It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.“ — Terry Pratchett „It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?“ — Emil M. Cioran „Child of lightning, beware the earth,The giants' revenge the seven shall birth,The forge and the dove shall break the cage,And death unleash through Hera's rage.“ — Rick Riordan