Quotes about death
death ends one-thing
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. Simone Elkeles
death time destiny
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
death suicide men
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. Robert A. Heinlein
death mean dying
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Thomas Troward
death running track
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
death men funeral
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
death men names
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
death sight soul
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.
death wings hymns
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
death order rivers
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard. Lin Yutang
death dying alive
You can't get out of life alive. Les Brown
death discworld taxes
I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once. Terry Pratchett
death magic lasts
Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
death suicide magic
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
death thinking red
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
death real fall
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either. Seth
death integrity important
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life. L. Ron Hubbard
death ephemeral remember
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Marcus Aurelius
death thoughtful maturity
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.
death science perception
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
death if-there-is-a-god wells
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
death men names
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
death believe heaven
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
death philosophical dying
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
death differences painful
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. Marcia Muller
death age birth
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. Peter Ustinov
death dying remedy
There's a remedy for everything except death. Peter O'Toole
death overcoming finding-god
You must overcome death by finding God in it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
death running unhappy
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson
death life-and-love past
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. Rabindranath Tagore
death men order
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?