Quotes about death
death hero names
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes. Chuck Palahniuk
death wisdom zero
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Chuck Palahniuk
death wall pain
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didnt I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. Chuck Palahniuk
death truth real
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. Chuck Palahniuk
death drug
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. Chuck Palahniuk
death strong fate
And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Anne Bradstreet
death spring lying
The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. Anne Bradstreet
death love-is men
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever. Anne Bradstreet
death lying men
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. Anne Bradstreet
death mushrooms dying
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive. Donal Henahan
death dying beast
Death frees the beast. Clive Owen
death kissing one-day
one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was e. e. cummings
death bills buffalo
Buffalo Bill's defunct e. e. cummings
death fashion men
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. E. B. White
death littles birth
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. E. B. White
death sweet dying
Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart. Dustin Hoffman
death birth forgotten
Death is feared as birth is forgotten. Douglas Horton
death dying awake
To awake from death is to die in peace. Douglas Horton
death thoughts-of-death
So love the thought of death, love it. Anthony de Mello
death people world
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. Anne Tyler
death body odd
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. Anne Tyler
death unfair should
It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born. Anna Magnani
death daughter fathers-day
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton
death-penalty penalties against-death-penalty
I am against the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo
death moving lines
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. Ambrose Bierce
death feet graves
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. Ambrose Bierce
death dying virtue
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Ambrose Bierce
death suicide differences
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers. Ambrose Bierce
death suicide grief
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. Ambrose Bierce
death amusement entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. Ambrose Bierce
death sitting body
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. Ambrose Bierce
death political sorcery
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Ambrose Bierce
death extreme modest normally rare
That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates. Dick Thompson