Quotes about death
death thinking desire
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature. Lord Chesterfield
death wise faces
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin. Mahatma Gandhi
death views long
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
death midst darkness-to-light
... in the midst of death life persists ...
death men live-free
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
death acceptance successful
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. Freya Stark
death matter oh-well
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death. Napoleon Bonaparte
death littles celebration
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death. Norman Mailer
death young reach-out
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them. Norman Maclean
death punishment our-society
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch
death alive sometimes
Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living. Oriana Fallaci
death song lying
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! Omar Khayyam
death sleep three
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
death doors people
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
death mean dying
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
death brother spring
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
death giving grove
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life. Octavia Butler
death mother form
Death is the mother of forms. Octavio Paz
death civilization ends
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
death believe two-sides
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale
death sweet pain
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! Emile M. Cioran
death men differences
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
death enjoy perversity
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow
death letting-go dog
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. Eric Roth
death people important
Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
death pain real
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles. Epictetus
death evil dying
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?
death men realizing
There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death. Epicurus
death wall men
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
death evil dying
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
death dying
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
death art philosophical
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
death military long
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.