Quotes about death
death sharks obsession
I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. Tori Amos
death suicide smell
Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.
death lost havens
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. Vance Havner
death ideas forever
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. Ugo Betti
death children parent
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions. Richard Dawkins
death brain dying
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
death religious pride
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
death atheist learning
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
death spiritual religious
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
death way might
We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed. Robinson Jeffers
death long dying
Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. Robin Williams
death fighting humanity
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency and, God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.
death opposites choices
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Robin Hobb
death holocaust frozen
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. Robert Pinsky
death time moving
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath Robert Lowell
death light darkness
...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert M. Hutchins
death beach night
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free. Sara Teasdale
death men blood
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death nature swans
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
death support whole
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life. Samuel Johnson
death bears wells
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
death philosophy may
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
death hatred veneration
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
death home night
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
death dying
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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 kindness mind
When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.
death sleep preparation
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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?