Quotes about death
death numbers people
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. Eugene Ionesco
death grief believe
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. Esther Hicks
death suicide stories
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death. Ernest Hemingway
death writing stories
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
death art honor
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
death home simple
Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
death science axes
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it. Erwin Chargaff
death dying bigs
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. Erma Bombeck
death pregnancy birth
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth. Florida Scott-Maxwell
death morning men
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning. Florence Nightingale
death peace war
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover
death mirrors dying
The world is the mirror of myself dying. Henry Miller
death moving men
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
death unknown-worlds afterlife
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
death grief heaven
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. Helen Keller
death believe soul
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
death wisdom peace
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
death perfect feels
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. George Eliot
death years shadow
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
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 cancer cells
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. Harold Pinter
death character funeral
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended. James Boswell
death strong tree
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
death children play
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them. Jamaica Kincaid
death wish needs
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien
death wise giving
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
death atheist if-there-is-a-god
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov
death journey thinking
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
death sun
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. Francois de La Rochefoucauld