Quotes about death
death enough died
To have died once is enough. Virgil
death people dying
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. William Holden
death fall autumn
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf. Vincent Van Gogh
death past relief
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings. Wayne Dyer
death moving rooms
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.
death dimensions
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
death dark winning
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end. Walter de La Mare
death feelings important
A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead. Walter Benjamin
death stories storytelling
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
death men giving
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. Virginia Woolf
death country
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see. William Blake
death despair torment
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
death eye heart
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
death art science
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
death dying bones
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
death pain book
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. Wallace Stegner
death weed growing-up
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. Samuel Richardson
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