Quotes about death
death dying leaves-of-grass
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Walt Whitman
death dying looks
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
death dying waste
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it? Saul Williams
death believe grief
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
death dignity deserve
Death deserves dignity. Saul Bellow
death ashes ends
ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end Roger Waters
death thinking knowing
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying. Roger Ebert
death trying getting-laid
If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying. Rod Stewart
death matter surprise
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise. Robin Morgan
death holocaust frozen
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. Robert Pinsky
death time moving
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath Robert Lowell
death light darkness
...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die. Robert M. Hutchins
death men return
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case? Zhuangzi
death dying consciousness
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. William Hazlitt
death dying action
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
death dying cures
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
death country horse
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
death causes youth
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
death giving trouble
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
death wise dark
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light. William Davenant
death science action
It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi. William E. Gladstone
death long healthy
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. Wendell Berry
death spiritual religious
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few. Walter Pater
death ambition pride
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Walter Raleigh
death men and-love
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
death dying world
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'. W. Somerset Maugham
death tonight baghdad
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
death night thinking
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. Vladimir Nabokov
death light rocks
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
death dark light
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn
death art ruins
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
death life-is end-of-life
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
death grief sea
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.