Quotes about death
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
death grief journey
Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. William C. Bryant
death dream lying
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
death brother rocks
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.
death dying slumber
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
death sex two
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. William Butler Yeats
death years mind
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
death real sight
Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced. Wilhelm von Humboldt
death firsts presses
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. Walter Savage Landor
death life-and-death dying
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
death age quiet
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
death hands fire
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
death art rivers
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever! Walter Scott
death lasts
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
death soldier battle
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his. Winston Churchill
death frying-pans picks
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. William S. Burroughs
death men body
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? William Jennings Bryan
death tombstone unyielding
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! Virginia Woolf
death power government
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. Woodrow Wilson
death traits
Death is an acquired trait. Woody Allen
death suicide dying
I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.
death
Marriage is the death of hope.
death cutting dying
Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses.
death depressing funny-life
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
death witty humorous
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
death witty humorous
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
death rocks tree
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. William Wordsworth
death heavenly dies
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
death eye men
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
death memories headstone
Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.