Quotes about death
death enemy overcoming
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. Francis Quarles
death men air
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
death lying long
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
death spring flames
Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?
death wise heart
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
death justice honor
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
death looks faces
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming
death lasts limits
Death is the last limit of all things. Horace
death matter boundaries
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
death suicide cutting
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
death night way
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]
death kings towers
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
death sooner-or-later compelled
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
death names
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
death years lasts
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
death kings feet
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
death design action
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon
death design study
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
death writing people
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. Evelyn Waugh
death disappointment mean
Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation. Eugene Kennedy
death heart ties
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. Eugene Ionesco
death numbers people
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
death grief believe
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. Esther Hicks
death suicide stories
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death. Ernest Hemingway
death writing stories
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
death art honor
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
death home simple
Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
death science axes
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it. Erwin Chargaff
death dying bigs
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. Erma Bombeck
death pregnancy birth
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth. Florida Scott-Maxwell
death morning men
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning. Florence Nightingale
death bother
The dead don't bother with particulars. Flannery O'Connor
death peace war
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover