Quotes about death
death atheist war
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. Thomas Jefferson
death wisdom religious
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
death ends one-thing
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. Simone Elkeles
death time destiny
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
death suicide men
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. Robert A. Heinlein
death suicide women
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns. Roger Rosenblatt
death real important
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.
death wisdom heart
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton
death dying
Rest is for the dead. Thomas Carlyle
death remedy all-things
There are remedies for all things but death.
death want awake
I want to meet my God awake.
death men two
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
death new-york husband
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. Steve Carell
death alive
There are some dead who are more alive than the living. Romain Rolland
death dying sweetheart
Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. Sally Field
death wisdom fear
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Rumi
death too-much
The dead are too much with us. Roger Zelazny
death dying way
To each person, their own way of death - with dignity. Susan Sarandon
death time sleep
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop
death thinking goes-on
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on. Stevie Smith
death
Say nothing but good of the dead. Solon
death best-job stanford-university
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. Steve Jobs
death suicide small-jobs
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
death important dying
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
death littles
Every day a little death. Stephen Sondheim
death heart thinking
Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ... Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life Our soul thinks of Immortality Sri Chinmoy
death may
Death fosters life that life may suckle death. Sri Aurobindo
death dream ignorance
I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest.
death mean dying
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Thomas Troward
death running track
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
death girlfriend one-day
My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it. Steven Wright
death fun science
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
death reality research
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. Raymond Moody