Quotes about death
death sex war
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc. Henry Miller
death mirrors dying
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
death moving men
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
death unknown-worlds afterlife
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
death dying horror
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. Jean Giraudoux
death retirement pay
Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
death order games
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
death suicide support
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. Jackie Mason
death-penalty penalties death-row
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. Gary Bauer
death memories health
Play Mozart in memory of me. Frederic Chopin
death health islands
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
death sleep health
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
death nature purpose
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais
death daughter mother
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
death eye want
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. Christopher Hitchens
death heart waiting
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die. George Eliot
death brother journey
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
death funeral looks
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
death dying literature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
death long-ago done
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask. Geoffrey Chaucer
death pain ends
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
death war fighting
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.
death stars men
In the stars is written the death of every man.
death long god-love
Those that God loves, do not live long. George Herbert
death memories thinking
I like to think that people live on in other people's memories. Christine Keeler
death sweet wind
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Christina Rossetti
death dying green
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
death loss heaven
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
death suicide stronger
I'm for a stronger death penalty. George W. Bush
death moments certain
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. George Orwell
death thrones finals
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. George R. R. Martin
death hero dying
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
death humorous profound
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.