Quotes about death
death fire dying
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. Edward Young
death stars empires
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
death tyrants portraits
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
death common good-and-bad
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest. Edmund Spenser
death holocaust stories
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel
death winning men
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
death attitude indifference
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
death yoga heaven
When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
death suicide blade-runner
It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ? Edward James Olmos
death awful nuisance
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. Edith Sitwell
death philosophy lying
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone. David Hume
death afterlife being-there
Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.
death constitution euthanasia
Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
death fastballs corners
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. August Wilson
death knowledge suffering
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
death father sea
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me! Edwin Hubbel Chapin
death sweet children
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.
death rising decay
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
death secret decay
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
death men soul
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
death higher conditions
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
death dust soul
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
death men forget
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
death way birth
Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. Edna O'Brien
death dog night
it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.
death blessed cutting
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! Edna St. Vincent Millay
death men good-man
Life must go on, Though good men die.
death darkness lovely
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.
death 4th-of-july promise
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
death age aging
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
death food saws
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
death money business
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
death children men
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?