Quotes about death
death littles rooms
How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds! James Shirley
death angel dying
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. James Russell Lowell
death men shadow
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow. Thomas a Kempis
death may thee
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
death dying nemo
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
death dying passing-away
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
death dying world
Everything in the world finds peace - eventually. Tao Okamoto
death short-circuit mother-night
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Marlene Dietrich
death knowing perfect
Death is the perfect knowing.
death truth growing-up
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
death flower garden
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death. May Sarton
death failure loss
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
death technology body
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! Max Frisch
death mistake technology
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.
death attitude wine
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
death people tears
Why do dying people never shed tears?
deaths example led millions rarely reported seen seven wars western
The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to the deaths of millions of people, and yet it is rarely reported in the Western press.
death fountain life waters
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. Rabindranath Tagore
death funerals occur
The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough. Mark Twain
death died gods good monster novel words wrote
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off. Wilbur Smith
death real writing
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. John Green
death cancer honor
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
death real thinking
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
death doors life-death
Death hath so many doors to let out life. John Fletcher
death suicide lasts
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!' Jon Stewart
death people religion
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
death husband thinking
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive. Joyce Carol Oates
death dying made
Everybody loses the thing that made them. Quvenzhane Wallis
death men grieving
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
death aim-of-life defense
The aims of life are the best defense against death. Primo Levi
death suicide order
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. Prince Philip
death sovereign human-life
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life. Pliny the Elder
death
Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.] Plutarch