Quotes about death
death heart ties
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. Eugene Ionesco
death men good-man
When good men die their goodness does not perish. Euripides
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. Francis Bacon
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. George Santayana
death repentance graves
There's no repentance in the grave. Isaac Watts
death tea afternoon
Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea. Jethro Tull
death loss reflection
People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss. Jena Malone
death men born
Man always dies before he is fully born. Erich Fromm
death freedom two
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman
death scenario
Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.
death formed hard history hope london safety spot
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. Samantha Shannon
death guys love mark radio sean wonder
I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up? Don Imus
death suffering moments
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it. Jean de la Bruyere
death women independent
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer
death long dying
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? Greta Garbo
death trying
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all! Ivan Turgenev
death terror dies
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! Irvin D. Yalom
death believe killing
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe. J. K. Rowling
death pain moving
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
death running humor
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...
death animal offering
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. H. L. Mencken
death doubt shade
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.
death children suicidal
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. Friedrich Nietzsche
death eight horrific innocent might otherwise people public punishment studies support though
I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not. Ed Koch
death ghetto heaven
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto? Tupac Shakur
death brain dying
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. Richard Dawkins
death atheist learning
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
death opposites choices
Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Robin Hobb
death nature swans
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death hatred veneration
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. Samuel Johnson
death law forever
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
death self waking
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! Sarah Orne Jewett
death so-sad dies
Is it then so sad a thing to die? Virgil