Quotes about death
death-penalty sometimes herds
Sometimes you just have the thin the herd. Dennis Miller
death spiritual birth
Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. Edgar Cayce
death lasts overcoming
The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.
death years earth
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. E. T. A. Hoffmann
death men dies
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
death horse men
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.
death fall sleep
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.
death knowledge suffering
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
death father sea
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me! Edwin Hubbel Chapin
death sweet children
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.
death rising decay
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
death secret decay
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
death men soul
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
death higher conditions
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
death dust soul
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
death men forget
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
death way birth
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. Edna O'Brien
death dog night
it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.
death blessed cutting
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! Edna St. Vincent Millay
death men good-man
Life must go on, Though good men die.
death darkness lovely
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.
death 4th-of-july promise
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
death age aging
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
death food saws
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
death money business
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
death children men
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
death-of-a-loved-one parent abuse
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life. Augusten Burroughs
death suicide two
A suicide kills two people . . . that's what it's for. Arthur Miller
death suffering dying
You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death. Art Carney
death religious men
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow. Bertrand Russell
death fall dark
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
death christian atheist
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
death education thinking
Some people would rather die than think.