Quotes about death
death men differences
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case. Emile M. Cioran
death enjoy perversity
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow
death letting-go dog
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. Eric Roth
death people important
Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
death pain real
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. Epictetus
death evil dying
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
death men realizing
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. Epicurus
death wall men
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
death evil dying
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
death dying
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
death art philosophical
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
death military long
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
death life-and-death death-anniversary
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
death evil use
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
death children wife
Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.
death sleep endurance
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. Emily Bronte
death sleep identity
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
death desire proud
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy. Emily Dickinson
death blow alive
A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
death
My life closed twice before its close
death tides sides
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
death loss graves
I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.
death winning brave
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.
death dying
I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
death men light
A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
death bustle consequence
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
death distance years
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
death fate doors
We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
death letting-go trying
You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.
death near-death
Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
death spiritual night
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
death gnawing life mouse night passes rope
The day dawns, and then it ends, and the night passes away. Man's life is diminishing, but he does not understand. Each day, the mouse of death is gnawing away at the rope of life.
death ends one-thing
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. Simone Elkeles