Quotes about death
death gratitude grief
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder
death dies decency
And die with decency. Thomas Otway
death dying moments
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. Thomas Paine
death dying uncertain
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
death drinking procrastination
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Thomas de Quincey
death men animal
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Thomas Browne
death disease cures
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
death desire may
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
death ashamed ignominy
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
death pain world
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
death dark leap
(Death is) A leap into the dark.
death dying arms
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
death anchors sea
As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,... Robert Montgomery
death sleep night
There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.
death long trying
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way. Robert Harris
death life-is moments
Life is but a moment, death also is but another. Robert H. Schuller
death brother unions
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. Walt Whitman
death children men
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death waiting short-death
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
death night hands
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
death night lovely
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
death spiritual vehement
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
death country people
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
death dying leaves-of-grass
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death dying looks
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
death dying waste
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it? Saul Williams
death believe grief
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
death dignity deserve
Death deserves dignity. Saul Bellow
death ashes ends
ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end Roger Waters
death thinking knowing
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying. Roger Ebert
death trying getting-laid
If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying. Rod Stewart
death matter surprise
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise. Robin Morgan
death holocaust frozen
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. Robert Pinsky