Quotes about death
death time block
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers. John Dos Passos
death men good-man
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. John Donne
death exercise swimming
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
death dying too-much
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. John Osborne
death journey people
Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way. John O'Donohue
death spiritual broken
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.
death kindness acceptance
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the time comes for you to make the journey, you will receive a serenity, peace and a welcoming freedom that will enable you to go to the other world with great elegance, grace and acceptance.
death war unconquerable-will
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. John Milton
death keys eternity-of-life
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
death men forever
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. John Millington Synge
death ideas mistaken
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. Leo Tolstoy
death wells dies
Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?
death men self
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
death letting-go mind
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go. Larry Kramer
death lying home
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street. Lewis H. Lapham
death white forever
It is the fear of death--24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.
death new-york hard-times
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
death looks different
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it. Lewis Carroll
death believe would-be
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.
death suicide enemy
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller
death habit synonym
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Juliette Binoche
death years enemy
Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping. Joshua L. Liebman
death stars children
The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."
death wind mad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad
death fall phones
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes
death father agony
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. John Keble
death flower thinking
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats
death brain may
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
death thank-god growing
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.
death sleep eagles
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
death thank-god quiet
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
death divorce sea
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
death
Death is Life's high meed.