Quotes about death
death work mirrors
Every day in the mirror I watch death at work. Jean Cocteau
death reading long
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
death dying pieces
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
death ugly-things dying
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
death suicide humorous
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. George Carlin
death funny-but-true persons
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
death soul done
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. Garth Stein
death killing without-you
Learning to live again without you is killing me. Garth Brooks
death kings angel
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.
death seasons
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! Felicia Hemans
death passing-away world
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.
death garden dying
In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me. Federico Garcia Lorca
death horse would-be
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day. Fanny Kemble
death men promise
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Ezra Pound
death suicide trouble
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides
death pain thinking
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
death sorry men
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
death men good-man
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
death men life-is
Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?
death hands faces
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. Francis Picabia
death wine omnipotence
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death. Francis of Assisi
death events
Death is what makes life an event. Francis Ford Coppola
death cry should
What then remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die? Francis Bacon
death fear believe
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
death children science
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
death dying natural
It is natural to die as to be born.
death home ready
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
death children fear
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
death named streetcar
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' Mike Nichols
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 bother
The dead don't bother with particulars. Flannery O'Connor