Quotes about death
death men return
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case? Zhuangzi
death suicide dying
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed
death men feet
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Wilfred Owen
death war lying
I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
death men envy
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
death regret spring
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him! Washington Irving
death drinking alcohol
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
death forgiveness nature
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. Voltaire
death respect dying
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
death loyal patriot
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
death men animal
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. William Ernest Hocking
death pieces rooms
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair. William Ernest Henley
death summer mother
Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.
death dies
So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.
death morning couple
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened. William Tecumseh Sherman
death military war
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
death dying liberty
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum. William Rehnquist
death grieving profound
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. William Ralph Inge
death grief journey
Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. William C. Bryant
death dream lying
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
death brother rocks
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.
death dying slumber
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
death sex two
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. William Butler Yeats
death years mind
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
death real sight
Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced. Wilhelm von Humboldt
death firsts presses
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. Walter Savage Landor
death life-and-death dying
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
death age quiet
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
death hands fire
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
death art rivers
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! Walter Scott
death lasts
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
death soldier battle
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his. Winston Churchill
death sorry mythology
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. Rick Riordan