Quotes about death
death lamps dawn
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared. Rabindranath Tagore
death giving coins
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
death mother night
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
death humorous flames
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
death past men
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere. Kent Nerburn
death night iron
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. James F. Cooper
death life-is ends
Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it. Henry Rollins
death fate bereavement
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau
death sleep dying
I'll sleep well tonight Henry Ford
death crush breathing
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death? Marcel Proust
death animal broken
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.
death diversity peculiar
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
death filled-in afternoon
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
death fear-of-death prove
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal. Joseph Addison
death honor thousand
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
death people dying
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
death seeds reap
What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap. Jose Rizal
death eye minutes
Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly. Jose Saramago
death journey ends
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
death evil dying
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift
death drug crux
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs. John Cheever
death love-is anchors
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death. John Boyle O'Reilly
death life major stories
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
death
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually. Billy Graham
death diligent foolish idle life people road short
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
death book extinction
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction. Lance Morrow
death country heaven
We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash. Johnny Cash
death grief loss
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
death space great-things
The great thing about the dead, they make space. John Updike
death heart lasts
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. John Ray
death blessed path
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. James Joyce
death way different
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
death kings hands
Death lays his icy hand on kings. James Shirley