Quotes about death
death blessed quiet
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality. Robert Southey
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. Robert Louis Stevenson
death lying home
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
death life-death easier
If this is death, it is easier than life.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. Robert E. Howard
death brother unions
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. Walt Whitman
death night lovely
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
death spiritual vehement
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
death country people
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
death dying looks
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
death believe grief
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
death ashes ends
ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end Roger Waters
death thinking knowing
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying. Roger Ebert
death trying getting-laid
If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying. Rod Stewart
death matter surprise
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise. Robin Morgan
death men thinking
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was. William Faulkner
death good-friend broken
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted. Saint Augustine
death suicide children
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
death blood people
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. Yasser Arafat
death funeral remembrance
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. William Wallace
death concerned ifs
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned. Will Rogers
death war civilization
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
death government political-will
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
death suicide grandmother
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' Zach Galifianakis
death grief air
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. Zhuangzi
death suicide dying
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed
death loyal patriot
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. Voltaire
death dying liberty
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum. William Rehnquist
death grieving profound
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. William Ralph Inge
death dying slumber
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. William C. Bryant
death firsts presses
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. Walter Savage Landor
death lasts
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last Walter Scott
death perfect
Death is only perfect rest. Robert Green Ingersoll