Stevie Smith Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
  But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

  Stevie Smith

  Lying, Bed, May

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

• If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

  Stevie Smith

  Lying, Believe, White

• I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

  Stevie Smith

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

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