Quotes about death
death nature swans
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death hatred veneration
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. Samuel Johnson
death home night
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
death equality disease
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
death hope sunshine
Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
death law forever
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
death self waking
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! Sarah Orne Jewett
death night dying
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. Wallace Stevens
death mother dream
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?
death so-sad dies
Is it then so sad a thing to die? Virgil
death enough died
To have died once is enough.
death people dying
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. William Holden
death past relief
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings. Wayne Dyer
death dimensions
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
death feelings important
A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead. Walter Benjamin
death stories storytelling
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
death country
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see. William Blake
death despair torment
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
death eye heart
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
death art science
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
death dying bones
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
death pain book
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. Wallace Stegner
death weed growing-up
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. Samuel Richardson
death dying forget
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. Samuel Butler
death men dying
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
death people dying
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
death oil lamps
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
death people funeral
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Samuel Goldwyn
death boon ifs
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. W. S. Gilbert
death philosophical picnics
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden
death cities voice
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
death war men
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
death looks
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day. William Cowper