Quotes about death
death people religion
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. Jon Stewart
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 lying eye
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. Joseph Hall
death dying borders
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
death hypocrite men
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
death dying
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz
death fate men
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. Katherine Anne Porter
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.
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 adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure.
death sight lines
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. Joan Didion
death life-death made
Once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix
death angel wings
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
death hurt pain
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
death forever dying
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. Emma Stone
death dream dust
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. John Mellencamp
death growing-up fun
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
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 woe lows
And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood
death folks
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death. John Hiatt
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.
death science men
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. John Harvey Kellogg
death years might
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. John Henry Newman
death flower blessed
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality. John Evelyn
death art thinking
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne
death sheets intricate
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
death grief bereavement
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
death peace grief
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
death book men
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
death time block
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers. John Dos Passos
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.