Quotes about death
death quiet havens
Death is the quiet haven of us all. William Wordsworth
death thinking dying
I think you die the way you live. William Shatner
death suicide might
I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
death dying important
Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
death boon ill
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. Sappho
death dying forget
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. Samuel Butler
death men dying
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
death people dying
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
death oil lamps
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death people funeral
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Samuel Goldwyn
death birth
Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett
death air dying
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
death imagination people
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument. Salman Rushdie
death honesty
With death comes honesty.
death self years
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me W. S. Merwin
death boon ifs
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. W. S. Gilbert
death philosophical picnics
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden
death cities voice
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
death children thoughtful
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
death men gmos
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
death war men
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
death country taxation
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. William Cobbett
death dream flower
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. William Cowper
death looks
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
death dust turns
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
death dream inspiration
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
death brother unions
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. Walt Whitman
death children men
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death waiting short-death
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
death night hands
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
death night lovely
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
death spiritual vehement
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
death country people
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."