Quotes about death
death needs fear-of-death
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? Frank Herbert
death numbers statistics
In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. Gunter Grass
death thinking dying
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get. Jessica Brown Findlay
death goodbye kissing
Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye. Howard Dietz
death science actors
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared. Honore de Balzac
death drawn horrible
Her death was drawn out. A very horrible, horrible way to die. Chris Owens
death deaths greatly increased number
greatly increased the number of deaths and injuries.
death disgrace worse
For one that has been esteemed, disgrace Is worse than death
death trying
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all! Ivan Turgenev
death anxiety mind
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind. Irvin D. Yalom
death men anxiety
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
death terror dies
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
death stress doors
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
death children trying
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
death facts terrible
A death is the most terrible of facts. Iris Murdoch
death wish needs
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien
death wise giving
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
death past desire
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. Isaac Asimov
death atheist if-there-is-a-god
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
death forgiving may
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew. Elton John
death journey thinking
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
death sun
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
death eye dying
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
death eye office
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
death men people
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
death determination men
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
death enemy overcoming
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. Francis Quarles
death men air
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
death lying long
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
death spring flames
Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?
death wise heart
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
death justice honor
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
death looks faces
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming