Quotes about death
death dying nemo
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.] Thomas a Kempis
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
death brain may
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
death thank-god growing
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.
death sleep eagles
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
death thank-god quiet
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
death divorce sea
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
death
Death is Life's high meed.
death suicide enormous
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith
death men dying
If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. Lionel Barrymore
death suicide harps
I've played everything but the harp.
death dancing ragged
Death is dancing me ragged. Linda Hogan
death party caskets
The party don't stop, til the casket drop. Lil' Kim
death people leaving
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving. Lilith Saintcrow
death dying peasants
But the peasants - how do the peasants die? Leo Tolstoy
death ideas mistaken
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
death wells dies
Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?
death men self
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
death dying remedy
There's a remedy for everything except death. Peter O'Toole
death overcoming finding-god
You must overcome death by finding God in it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
death running unhappy
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson
death life-and-love past
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. Rabindranath Tagore
death men order
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
death lamps dawn
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.
death giving coins
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
death mother night
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
death humorous flames
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
death past men
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere. Kent Nerburn