Quotes about death
death monsters
Death is when the monsters get you. Stephen King
death love-is inspire
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine
death struggle men
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
death passion light
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
death tyrants political
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
death twilight way
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Stephenie Meyer
death ephemeral remember
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Marcus Aurelius
death thoughtful maturity
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.
death science perception
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
death if-there-is-a-god wells
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
death men names
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
death believe heaven
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
death philosophical dying
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
death differences painful
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. Marcia Muller
death men shadow
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow. Thomas a Kempis
death may thee
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
death dying nemo
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
death dying passing-away
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
death dying world
Everything in the world finds peace - eventually. Tao Okamoto
death suicide men
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. Robert A. Heinlein
death mean dying
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Thomas Troward
death running track
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
death girlfriend one-day
My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it. Steven Wright
death fun science
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
death reality research
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. Raymond Moody
death blow endless-time
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound... Tom Stoppard
death truth-is knows
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death. Sam Harris
death honorable-death honorable
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] Tacitus
death loneliness swings
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land! Rupert Brooke
death space water
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
death laughing proud
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!