Quotes about death
death moving lines
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. Ambrose Bierce
death feet graves
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
death dying virtue
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
death suicide differences
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
death suicide grief
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
death amusement entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
death sitting body
IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
death political sorcery
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
death thinking past
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. Alice Thomas Ellis
death certain
Nothing is ever certain. Alice Sebold
death inspirational-life believe
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker
death fun dying
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Alice James
death grief grieving
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
death suicide men
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
death conquer jesus-christ-superstar
To conquer death you only have to die. Alane Ferguson
death running risk
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Albert Camus
death men long
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
death thinking race
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
death matter stranger
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
death men effort
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
death believe men
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
death oneself
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
death importance precise
Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
death mouths dirt
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
death punishment dying
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
death peace heart
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
death building-up destruction
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. Annie Besant
death dying scare
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. Annie Lennox
death dying doe
You get angry - death does that. Annabella Sciorra
death husband home
I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you. Anna Nicole Smith
death time fiction
The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been. Angela Carter
death two disease
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end. Andrew Greeley
death strong sick
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death. Andrew Jackson