Quotes about death
death heart loss
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Jodi Picoult
death giving lasts
God gives quietness at last. John Greenleaf Whittier
death art hands
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
death dying waste
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed. Keanu Reeves
death bed said
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. Kingsley Amis
death dying young
Only the young die good. Oliver Herford
death distance friendly
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. Oliver Goldsmith
death lonely dark
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way. Margaret Atwood
death children home
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.
death country immortality
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Marcus Tullius Cicero
death courage men
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
death wish-to-die care
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
death extinction lasts
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]
death home inns
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
death men complaining
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
death home quitting
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
death home sight
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
death roots soul
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
death regret home
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
death running men
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. Mark Twain
death government dying
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers? P. J. O'Rourke
death grief funeral
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
death fathers-day children
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
death failure character
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
death hypocrisy dying
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde
death waiting mind
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
death mean dying
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself. Lydia M. Child
death sleep forgotten
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] Lucretius
death generations may
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.