Quotes about death
death live-life hands
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
death suicide children
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
death age sound
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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 heart waiting
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die. George Eliot
death brother journey
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.
death funeral looks
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
death dying literature
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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
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