Quotes about death
death game life time
Every game is a must-win. This time of year, it's life or death right now. Dan Haren
deaths increased number
The number of deaths have increased every year, Ramsey Clark
death global life people
It's life or death for a lot of people in this country. It's a global issue.
death ends
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship. Hal Holbrook
death long dying
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? Greta Garbo
death kings men
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace
death real grief
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us. Herman Melville
death men dying
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
death heart sleep
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.
death men childhood
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
death winning names
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
death tree dies
Even trees do not die without a groan. Henry David Thoreau
death summer lying
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.
death wise jesus
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
death lying men
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
death spring other-worlds
The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language. Jeremy Collier
death party dying
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come. Jeff Goldblum
death angel leaving
Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming. Jerry Spinelli
death stubbornness ends
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. Jeffrey Eugenides
death dying horror
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life. Jean Giraudoux
death retirement pay
Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
death order games
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
death suicide support
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life. Jackie Mason
death-penalty penalties death-row
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. Gary Bauer
death age sound
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. Friedrich Nietzsche
death home class
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap. Jeanette Winterson
death children yesterday
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?
death believe mind
The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.
death dying pieces
When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming. Jim Carrey
death tea afternoon
Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea. Jethro Tull
death loss reflection
People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss. Jena Malone
death existence-of-life existentialism
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre
death existentialism continuation
Death is a continuation of my life without me...