Quotes about death
death winning names
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed. Herman Melville
death tree dies
Even trees do not die without a groan. Henry David Thoreau
death summer lying
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.
death wise jesus
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
death lying men
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
death spring other-worlds
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language. Jeremy Collier
death party dying
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come. Jeff Goldblum
death wise men
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine
death funny-life forever
I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx
death rest-in-peace would-be
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot. Graham Chapman
death form
Failure too is a form of death... Graham Greene
death near-death resigned
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
death dying life-and-death
He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone
death submit
Death submits to no one. Homer
death dies
I shall not altogether die. Horace
death dark way
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
death night path
One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
death running law
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
death art kings
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
death simple political
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. Hannah Arendt
death strong thoughtful
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
death dying silent
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
death misery sin
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
death doctors people
A great doctor kills more people than a great general. Gottfried Leibniz
death dying world
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. Gore Vidal
death moving dying
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
death design body
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace
death cancer cells
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. Harold Pinter
death character funeral
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended. James Boswell
death strong tree
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
death children play
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them. Jamaica Kincaid
death atheist fear
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti
death dying alive
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive! Gillian Anderson