Quotes about death
death pleasure nations
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Samuel Johnson
death time men
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
death garden dying
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. Robert Hunter
death names lasts
My name is Death: the last best friend am I. Robert Southey
death blessed quiet
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. Robert Louis Stevenson
death past gone
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
death heart eye
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.
death lying home
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
death life-death easier
If this is death, it is easier than life.
death lying father
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
death baby buddhist
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. Robert E. Howard
death stand-alone dies
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
death ocean eternity
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
death thinking challenges
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay
death dying toil
For the dead there are no more toils. Sophocles
death drawing enough
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
death men want
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. Stephen King
death monsters
Death is when the monsters get you.
death love-is inspire
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine
death wisdom heart
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton
death dying
Rest is for the dead. Thomas Carlyle
death remedy all-things
There are remedies for all things but death.
death want awake
I want to meet my God awake.
death men two
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
death new-york husband
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. Steve Carell
death suicide dark
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
death body consciousness
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. Stanislav Grof
death suicide forever
I'm going to live forever, or die trying ! Spider Robinson
death suicide sick
I told you I was sick. Spike Milligan
death suicide dying
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. Sigmund Freud
death suicide killers
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared. Sergio Leone