Quotes about death
death home inns
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
death men complaining
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
death home quitting
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
death home sight
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
death roots soul
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
death regret home
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
death lovely
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out. Mark Twain
death inspiration misquoting
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
death exaggeration-is exaggerated
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
death slow
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
death elephants car
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. Hunter S. Thompson
death should-have nine
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
death goodbye kissing
Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye. Howard Dietz
death science actors
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared. Honore de Balzac
death drawn horrible
Her death was drawn out. A very horrible, horrible way to die. Chris Owens
death crazy animal
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting. Burl Ives
death ideas effort
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer? James Hillman
death dying tomorrow
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
death dies
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt
death deaths department gang
Our department is now investigating another 980 deaths of young gang members.
deaths given
Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them. Sherwin B. Nuland
death people short worried
People are worried sick. Death now comes on very, very short notice.
death earth heaven life melts people
People come, people go. Life melts like snow. From the Earth below, to Heaven it goes...
death great next
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J. K. Rowling
death deaths last malaria
Deaths from malaria have doubled over the last 20 years, Bill Gates
deaths exceeded holiday injuries wildest
Deaths and injuries from the holiday celebrations had exceeded the wildest prophecies, he noticed,
death final indeed living love share
Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.
death wants
Death is what he wants and what he'll get only if you accommodate him.