Quotes about death
death practice eggs
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. Muriel Spark
death needs fear-of-death
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? Frank Herbert
death numbers statistics
In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. Gunter Grass
death thinking dying
You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get. Jessica Brown Findlay
death-penalty murder agree
The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty. Jesse Ventura
death-penalty stealing
If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.
death war dying
War is death's feast. George Herbert
death hate passion
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. Jean de la Bruyere
death infinite eternity
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
death fashion husband
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
death dying would-be
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
death suffering moments
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
death heart waiting
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world. Jean Anouilh
death crazy animal
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting. Burl Ives
death ideas effort
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer? James Hillman
death baby lying
She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead? Mojo Nixon
death time long
We die only once, and for such a long time. Moliere
death rome grants
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
death shadow-of-death shadow
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
death medicine people
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
death drawn horrible
Her death was drawn out. A very horrible, horrible way to die. Chris Owens
death deaths greatly increased number
greatly increased the number of deaths and injuries.
death disgrace worse
For one that has been esteemed, disgrace Is worse than death
death trying
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all! Ivan Turgenev
death anxiety mind
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind. Irvin D. Yalom
death men anxiety
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
death terror dies
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
death stress doors
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
death children trying
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
death facts terrible
A death is the most terrible of facts. Iris Murdoch
death real thinking
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. Giorgio Armani
death sleep dying
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep. Gerard Manley Hopkins
death-eaters people inspirational-harry-potter
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. J. K. Rowling