Quotes about death
death discworld taxes
I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once. Terry Pratchett
death magic lasts
Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
death suicide magic
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
death dying life-is
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Tennessee Williams
death blow men
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
death time dying
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
death animal giving
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
death insults-you trying
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon. Terence Rattigan
death song hero
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
death aunt pet
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. Randall Jarrell
death thinking red
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again. Ralph Waldo Emerson
death real fall
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either. Seth
death integrity important
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life. L. Ron Hubbard
death dying wells
If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near. Laura Nyro
death ephemeral remember
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Marcus Aurelius
death thoughtful maturity
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.
death science perception
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
death if-there-is-a-god wells
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
death men names
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
death believe heaven
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
death philosophical dying
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
death differences painful
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. Marcia Muller
death men shadow
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow. Thomas a Kempis
death may thee
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
death dying nemo
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
death dying passing-away
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
death dying world
Everything in the world finds peace - eventually. Tao Okamoto
death wind mad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad
death fall phones
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes
death father agony
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. John Keble
death flower thinking
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats