Quotes about death
death men animal
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Thomas Browne
death disease cures
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
death desire may
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
death ashamed ignominy
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
death pain world
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
death dark leap
(Death is) A leap into the dark.
death dying arms
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
death anchors sea
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,... Robert Montgomery
death sleep night
There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.
death long trying
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way. Robert Harris
death life-is moments
Life is but a moment, death also is but another. Robert H. Schuller
death eye vanity
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. T. S. Eliot
death skulls skins
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
death hands way
Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.
death communication fire
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
death running laughter
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
death dying life-is
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
death dance recovery
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
death different birth
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
death poetry religion
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
death years dying
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
death suicide moments
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. Sylvester Stallone
death memorial dying
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Susan Sontag
death religious dying
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
death sex pornography
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
death dying unbearable
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.
death suicide disappear
You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change. Scott Adams
death suicide thinking
I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
death suicide skills
A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.
death firsts disappear
If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you. Rajneesh
death dying way
To each person, their own way of death - with dignity. Susan Sarandon
death design-process aesthetic-beauty
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. Thomas J. Watson
death space water
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime! Rupert Brooke