Quotes about death
death mean tragedy
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. Theodore Roosevelt
death war ridiculous
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
death house mourning
The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. Theodore L. Cuyler
death thinking laughing
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. Terry Pratchett
death tunnels light
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
death wisdom atheist
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
death shining shadow
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
death effectiveness destroying
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. Margaret J. Wheatley
death husband ideas
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. Kin Hubbard
death sweet fall
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth. Michelangelo
death numbers widows
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
death afterlife doe
George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive. Michael Palin
death truth growing-up
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
death flower garden
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death. May Sarton
death failure loss
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
death technology body
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! Max Frisch
death mistake technology
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.
death attitude wine
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
death people tears
Why do dying people never shed tears?
death truth men
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
death dark soul
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
death dream dark
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare. Mary Webb
death stones oblivion
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens. Pablo Neruda
death perception god-love
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.] Plautus
death men blessing
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. Plato
death men excellence
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
death real knowing
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
death men hours
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
death children men
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
death night men
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
death rounds
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. Philip Larkin
death courage mean
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.
death fear-of-death walks
Walk with the dead For fear of death.