Quotes about death
death
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to. Edmund White
death might showing
I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.' Jenny Eclair
death dying
It has often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible. Henry Fielding
death war dying
War is death's feast. George Herbert
death hate passion
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. Jean de la Bruyere
death infinite eternity
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
death fashion husband
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
death dying would-be
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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.
death heart waiting
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world. Jean Anouilh
death crazy animal
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting. Burl Ives
death ideas effort
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer? James Hillman
death dying tomorrow
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
death dies
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt
death dying wish
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. Ernest Renan
death dream flower
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. Ernest Dowson
death destiny men
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man. Ernest Becker
death memories health
Play Mozart in memory of me. Frederic Chopin
death health islands
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
death sleep health
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
death nature purpose
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais
death daughter mother
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
death eye want
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. Christopher Hitchens
death dying alive
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. Chris Hemsworth
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 thinking dying
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying Gerard Way
death ends
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship. Hal Holbrook
death long dying
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? Greta Garbo
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace
death real grief
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. Herman Melville
death men dying
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
death heart sleep
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.
death men childhood
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.