Quotes about death
death sister-in-law dying
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. Anais Nin
death husband kids
There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest. Anne Enright
death dying world
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway. Anne Frank
death prayer heaven
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here. Andres Segovia
death dying descent
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start. Anaxagoras
death suicide descent
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
death nice angel
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world... Chuck Palahniuk
death lying animal
Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.
death people dying
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
death firsts steps
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
death hero names
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
death wisdom zero
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
death wall pain
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didnt I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
death truth real
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
death drug
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
death strong fate
And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate. Anne Bradstreet
death spring lying
The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
death love-is men
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.
death lying men
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
death thoughts-of-death
So love the thought of death, love it. Anthony de Mello
death people world
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily. Anne Tyler
death body odd
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
death unfair should
It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born. Anna Magnani
death daughter fathers-day
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton
death-penalty penalties against-death-penalty
I am against the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo
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.