Quotes about death
death wall journey
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city. D. H. Lawrence
death journey ships
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
death vanity broken
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
death war black
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
death dream
Death is one dream out of another flowing. Conrad Aiken
death sea meetings
Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.
death lying dust
Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?
death dying-slowly causes
Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening. Conor Oberst
death pleasure wanted
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Clarence Darrow
death clever cutting
I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever. Danny Elfman
death moving dying
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward. Danny Glover
death life
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
death thinking water
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. Alexander MacLaren
death doors house
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
death wings victory
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? Alexander Pope
death youth dies
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
death men suffering
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
death losing-friends lost-friendship
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
death pain rage
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
death men funeral
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. E. M. Forster
death men ideas
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
death dying fit
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. Douglas MacArthur
death
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow. Dorothy Richardson
death husband lying
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. Donald Cargill
death lonely jobs
You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash. Don DeLillo
death dying ashes
Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.
death thinking years
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
death needs boundaries
Isn't death the boundary we need?
death
The dead have a presence.
death firsts
After the first death, there is no other. Dylan Thomas
death lost-love sea
Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.
death hate waiting
I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it. Doug Stanhope
death mushrooms dying
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive. Donal Henahan