Quotes about death
death great honest played purpose saying scared win
They played with great purpose and passion. I was scared to death of them, to be honest with you. In saying that, I still thought we were going to win the game. Roy Williams
death seek sentence states united
a sentence of death is justified, and the United States will seek the death penalty. Janet Reno
death life pressures rarely
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death. Ryan Holmes
death exhibit feared hollywood industry lost taken time
They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time. John Sweeney
death dying alive
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. Chris Hemsworth
death women independent
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer
death thinking dying
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying Gerard Way
death ends
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship. Hal Holbrook
death long dying
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? Greta Garbo
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace
death real grief
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. Herman Melville
death men dying
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
death heart sleep
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.
death men childhood
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
death winning names
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
death tree dies
Even trees do not die without a groan. Henry David Thoreau
death summer lying
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.
death wise jesus
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
death lying men
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
death character funeral
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended. James Boswell
death strong tree
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
death children play
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them. Jamaica Kincaid
death wish needs
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien
death wise giving
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
death past desire
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. Isaac Asimov
death atheist if-there-is-a-god
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
death forgiving may
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew. Elton John
death journey thinking
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
death sun
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
death eye dying
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
death eye office
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
death men people
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
death determination men
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.