Quotes about death
death sweet kissing
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.
death littles woe
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. Raymond Chandler
death sorry mythology
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. Rick Riordan
death kindness losing-a-loved-one
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Haruki Murakami
death unexpected surprise
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar
death atheist oblivion
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Ouida
death men thinking
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was. William Faulkner
death good-friend broken
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted. Saint Augustine
death suicide children
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
death blood people
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. Yasser Arafat
death concerned ifs
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned. Will Rogers
death war civilization
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
death government political-will
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
death suicide grandmother
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' Zach Galifianakis
death grief air
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. Zhuangzi
death beach night
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free. Sara Teasdale
death men blood
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death nature swans
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
death support whole
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life. Samuel Johnson
death bears wells
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
death philosophy may
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
death hatred veneration
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
death home night
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
death dying
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
death equality disease
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
death hope sunshine
Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
death law forever
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
death kindness mind
When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.
death sleep preparation
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
death self waking
the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self! Sarah Orne Jewett
death night dying
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. Wallace Stevens
death mother dream
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?
death simple dying
Things are simple when you're going to die. Vivien Leigh