Quotes about death
death blow endless-time
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound... Tom Stoppard
death truth-is knows
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death. Sam Harris
death loss genuine-concern
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
death dirty self
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either. S. I. Hayakawa
death twilight way
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Stephenie Meyer
death long heaven
Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).] Thomas Heywood
death fear may
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die… Thomas Hardy
death stories sad-story
Death makes sad stories of us all. Tim Schafer
death hands world
Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons? Thomas Love Peacock
death dying amusement
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals. Thomas Jefferson
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 character resurrection
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. Thomas Chalmers
death wreaths germs
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death. Victor Hugo
death feet profound
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
death dark light
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
death men unknown-things
Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
death morning next
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
death night doors
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
death dream wisdom
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
death wisdom live-life
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
death thinking challenges
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay
death dying toil
For the dead there are no more toils. Sophocles
death drawing enough
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
death men want
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. Stephen King
death monsters
Death is when the monsters get you.
death love-is inspire
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine
death struggle men
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
death passion light
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
death tyrants political
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
death honorable-death honorable
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] Tacitus
death loneliness swings
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land! Rupert Brooke
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!
death laughing proud
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!