Quotes about death
death land calm
Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he. Percy Bysshe Shelley
death dream sleep
O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life
death brother sleep
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
death pain hate
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
death art
Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.
death ends babe
The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.
death dust burning
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
death needs satisfaction
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. Paul Valery
death wish more-time
No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business." Paul Tsongas
death heart snakes
I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone. Mary Oliver
death light darkness
maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
death life-and-love culture
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death. Pope John Paul II
death catholic dying
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
death adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure. James M. Barrie
death sight lines
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. Joan Didion
death life-death made
Once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix
death angel wings
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
death hurt pain
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
death forever dying
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. Emma Stone
death dream dust
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. John Mellencamp
death growing-up fun
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
death grief loss
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
death woe lows
And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood
death folks
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death. John Hiatt
death world care
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
death science men
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. John Harvey Kellogg
death years might
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. John Henry Newman
death flower blessed
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality. John Evelyn
death art thinking
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne
death sheets intricate
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
death grief bereavement
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
death peace grief
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
death book men
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.