Quotes about death
death percentages cents
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. C. S. Lewis
death dying
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. Agnes Smedley
death past bird
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last Charlie Daniels
death suicide shots
They really are bad shots. Charles de Gaulle
death judging waiting
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. Charles de Gaulle
death waiting ready
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet. Charles de Lint
death peace eternity-of-life
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
death evil imagination
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
death men civilization
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. Charles Sanders Peirce
death taken dying
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Charles Mackay
death trying each-day
Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid. Bill Maher
death god suicide
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' Bill Maher
death event god great life lord prepare
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
death happy hear might scared stay trapped
When we first got back I was scared to death that he might have been trapped in there. I was so happy to hear that he didn't stay during the storm.
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. Edna O'Brien
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay
death darkness lovely
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay
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. Benjamin Franklin
death food saws
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Benjamin Franklin
death money business
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
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? Benjamin Franklin
death bribe
Death takes no bribes. Benjamin Franklin
death ponds world
Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net. Benjamin Franklin
death secret world
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world. Benjamin Franklin
death strong science
Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee. Benjamin Franklin
death pain purpose
We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way. Benjamin Franklin
death loss three
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. Arthur Golden
death want foolish
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. Arthur Brisbane
death home practice
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. Arthur C. Clarke
death medicine soul
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is. Anton Chekhov
death depressing men
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest. Anton Chekhov