Quotes about death
death art kings
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. Horace
death simple political
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. Hannah Arendt
death strong thoughtful
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
death dying silent
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
death misery sin
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
death doctors people
A great doctor kills more people than a great general. Gottfried Leibniz
death dying world
To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. Gore Vidal
death moving dying
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
death design body
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace
death imagination dying
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. George Bernard Shaw
death suicide heaven
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
death pain heart
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
death science men
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
death witty government
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
death religious people
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
death husband self
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death. Gena Rowlands
death heart fighting
Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with. Frederick William Robertson
death men born
Man always dies before he is fully born. Erich Fromm
death sweet ifs
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
death tragedy dies
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
death dying literature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
death long-ago done
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask. Geoffrey Chaucer
death pain ends
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
death war fighting
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.
death stars men
In the stars is written the death of every man.
death long god-love
Those that God loves, do not live long. George Herbert
death memories thinking
I like to think that people live on in other people's memories. Christine Keeler
death sweet wind
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Christina Rossetti
death dying green
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
death loss heaven
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
death suicide stronger
I'm for a stronger death penalty. George W. Bush
death moments certain
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. George Orwell
death thrones finals
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. George R. R. Martin