Quotes about death
death dying people
When people think of death and dying issues, we want them to think of us,
death ends artificial
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. Kurt Vonnegut
death fate ides-of-march
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come William Shakespeare
death lying heaven
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
death sweet
Sweets to the sweet.
death lost love lovers shall though
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas
death dying wish
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. Ernest Renan
death dream flower
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. Ernest Dowson
death destiny men
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man. Ernest Becker
death princess infernal-devices
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. Cassandra Clare
death gets human men mountain passed truth turn
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down. Kevin Barry
death greatest love money ranks source strange
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. Joe Moore
death life-is surprise
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. Muriel Spark
death practice eggs
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
death player action
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions. Kenneth Turan
death sorry fighting
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down. Nick Hornby
death nice fetch
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! Mark Twain
death years finals
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. Nicholas Sparks
death preparation dying
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death. Margot Asquith
death 4th-of-july bad-ass
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
death brother grief
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe. Marguerite Duras
death trying
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all! Ivan Turgenev
death anxiety mind
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind. Irvin D. Yalom
death men anxiety
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
death terror dies
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
death stress doors
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
death children trying
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
death facts terrible
A death is the most terrible of facts. Iris Murdoch
death real thinking
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. Giorgio Armani
death sleep dying
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep. Gerard Manley Hopkins
death-eaters people inspirational-harry-potter
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. J. K. Rowling
deathly-hallows harry-potter
Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.
death travel adventure
Death is just life's next big adventure.