Quotes about death
death husband thinking
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive. Joyce Carol Oates
death dying borders
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Joseph Hall
death dying
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz
death mexican shadow
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die. Katherine Anne Porter
death singers mourn
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
death travel adventure
To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie
death grief loss
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
death world care
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood
death book men
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. John Donne
death men good-man
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
death exercise swimming
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
death dying too-much
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. John Osborne
death journey people
Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way. John O'Donohue
death spiritual broken
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.
death kindness acceptance
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the time comes for you to make the journey, you will receive a serenity, peace and a welcoming freedom that will enable you to go to the other world with great elegance, grace and acceptance.
death war unconquerable-will
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. John Milton
death keys eternity-of-life
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
death men forever
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. John Millington Synge
death time character
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. John Berger
death husband ashes
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day. Joan Rivers
death freedom cutting
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
death suicide writing
No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. Garrison Keillor
death men
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time. Frank Yerby
death men world
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power. Francois Fenelon
death humility hands
I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
death news improvement
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
death justice cry
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
death regret world
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. Ludovico Ariosto
death dad raises
My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me. Ludacris
death failure sacrifice
They never fail who die in a great cause. Lord Byron
death desire certain
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
death hair dust
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
death spiritual night
Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickinson