Quotes about death
death
Death is Life's high meed. John Keats
death suicide enormous
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith
death men dying
If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. Lionel Barrymore
death suicide harps
I've played everything but the harp.
death dancing ragged
Death is dancing me ragged. Linda Hogan
death party caskets
The party don't stop, til the casket drop. Lil' Kim
death people leaving
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving. Lilith Saintcrow
death dying peasants
But the peasants - how do the peasants die? Leo Tolstoy
death justice cry
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
death regret world
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. Ludovico Ariosto
death dad raises
My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me. Ludacris
death failure sacrifice
They never fail who die in a great cause. Lord Byron
death desire certain
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
death hair dust
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
death sunset may
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
death self long
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be. Lord Chesterfield
death thinking desire
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
death wise faces
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin. Mahatma Gandhi
death views long
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
death midst darkness-to-light
... in the midst of death life persists ...
death men live-free
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
death acceptance successful
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. Freya Stark
death cadavers bitterness
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase. Gustave Flaubert
death believe feelings
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
death loss friend-died
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
death morning dying
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. John Dryden
death fear knows
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
death woe kind
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
death kings moments
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
death soul body
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
death body spirit
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
death fate decay
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
death prayer sea
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord. John Masefield