Quotes about death
death right-time dies
The right time to die is never exactly now. Mason Cooley
death fall tragedy
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
death abuse dies
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die. Mencius
death hypocrisy dying
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde
death waiting mind
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
death mean dying
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself. Lydia M. Child
death sleep forgotten
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] Lucretius
death generations may
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
death past leaving
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.
death people statistics
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. Liv Ullmann
death uncles tombstone
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? Margaret Smith
death science population
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources. Margaret Sanger
death dimensions modest
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Michael Cunningham
death men lazy-man
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. Michel De Certeau
death years alive
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. Michel de Montaigne
death foundation life-is
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
death men birth
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
death guests feds
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ...
death dying obligation
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
death oneself
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
death book people
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
death work garden
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
death life-and-death trouble
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
death nature want
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
death men age
God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
death benefits virtue
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
death boots should
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
death grief evil
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
death evil constraints
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
death liberty premeditation
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
death philosophical dies
To philosophize is to learn to die.
death fear air
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.