Quotes about death
death building-up destruction
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. Annie Besant
death dying scare
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. Annie Lennox
death dying doe
You get angry - death does that. Annabella Sciorra
death dying rising
We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world. D. H. Lawrence
death mother women
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
death fall autumn
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.
death wall journey
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
death journey ships
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
death vanity broken
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
death war black
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
death dream
Death is one dream out of another flowing. Conrad Aiken
death sea meetings
Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.
death lying dust
Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?
death dying-slowly causes
Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening. Conor Oberst
death life
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
death thinking water
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. Alexander MacLaren
death doors house
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
death wings victory
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? Alexander Pope
death youth dies
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
death men suffering
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
death losing-friends lost-friendship
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
death pain rage
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
death men funeral
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. E. M. Forster
death men ideas
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
death dying fit
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. Douglas MacArthur
death
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow. Dorothy Richardson
death husband lying
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. Donald Cargill
death lonely jobs
You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash. Don DeLillo
death dying ashes
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
death thinking years
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
death needs boundaries
Isn't death the boundary we need?
death
The dead have a presence.
death firsts
After the first death, there is no other. Dylan Thomas