Quotes about death
death children thoughtful
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral W. H. Auden
death men gmos
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
death war men
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
death country taxation
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. William Cobbett
death dream flower
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. William Cowper
death looks
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
death dust turns
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
death garden dying
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. Robert Hunter
death names lasts
My name is Death: the last best friend am I. Robert Southey
death blessed quiet
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. Robert Louis Stevenson
death past gone
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
death heart eye
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.
death lying home
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
death life-death easier
If this is death, it is easier than life.
death lying father
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
death baby buddhist
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. Robert E. Howard
death stand-alone dies
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
death ocean eternity
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
death dream inspiration
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
death brother unions
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. Walt Whitman
death children men
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death waiting short-death
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
death night hands
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
death night lovely
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
death spiritual vehement
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
death country people
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
death dying leaves-of-grass
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death dying looks
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
death dying waste
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it? Saul Williams
death believe grief
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
death dignity deserve
Death deserves dignity. Saul Bellow