Quotes about death
death punishment our-society
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch
death alive sometimes
Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living. Oriana Fallaci
death song lying
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! Omar Khayyam
death sleep three
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death doors people
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death mean dying
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death brother spring
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death giving grove
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life. Octavia Butler
death mother form
Death is the mother of forms. Octavio Paz
death civilization ends
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life. Octavio Paz
death believe two-sides
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale
death sweet pain
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! Emile M. Cioran
death men differences
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case. Emile M. Cioran
death enjoy perversity
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow
death letting-go dog
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. Eric Roth
death people important
Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us? Eric Roth
death pain real
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. Epictetus
death evil dying
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? Epictetus
death men realizing
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. Epicurus
death wall men
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus
death evil dying
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. Epicurus
death dying
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not. Epicurus
death art philosophical
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus
death military long
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
death life-and-death death-anniversary
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus
death evil use
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. Epictetus
death children wife
Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned. Epictetus
death sleep endurance
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. Emily Bronte
death sleep identity
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity. Emily Bronte
death desire proud
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy. Emily Dickinson
death blow alive
A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun. Emily Dickinson
death
My life closed twice before its close Emily Dickinson
death tides sides
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide! Emily Dickinson