Quotes about death
death men promise
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound
death suicide trouble
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides
death pain thinking
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
death sorry men
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
death men good-man
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
death men life-is
Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?
death hands faces
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. Francis Picabia
death wine omnipotence
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. Francis of Assisi
death events
Death is what makes life an event. Francis Ford Coppola
death cry should
What then remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die? Francis Bacon
death fear believe
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
death children science
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
death dying natural
It is natural to die as to be born.
death home ready
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
death children fear
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
death snakes progress
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out. George Washington Carver
death father moving
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. George Washington
death evil dying
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. George Santayana
death dark birth
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
death finals ends
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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 work mirrors
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work. Jean Cocteau
death reading long
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
death dying pieces
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
death ugly-things dying
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
death suicide humorous
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. George Carlin
death funny-but-true persons
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
death soul done
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. Garth Stein
death killing without-you
Learning to live again without you is killing me. Garth Brooks
death kings angel
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.
death seasons
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! Felicia Hemans