Quotes about death
death wise heart
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware. Francis Quarles
death justice honor
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
death looks faces
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming
death lasts limits
Death is the last limit of all things. Horace
death matter boundaries
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
death suicide cutting
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
death night way
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]
death kings towers
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
death sooner-or-later compelled
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
death names
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
death years lasts
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
death kings feet
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
death fear pride
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann
death suicide men
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. Homer
death men teeth
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
death iliad inches
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
death feels
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
death song men
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.
death men eulogy
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
death happen happens moved people retiring
If it happens once, it happens too often. Most of the appointments are with people who are retiring or who have moved on to other positions. A vacancy because of a death doesn't happen too often.
death
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
death eight horrific innocent might otherwise people public punishment studies support though
I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not. Ed Koch
death tragedy dies
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live. Erich Fromm
death want normal
I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice. Eminem
death kissing giving
What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke. Elvis Costello
death suicide destiny
...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. Jawaharlal Nehru
death design action
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon
death design study
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
death writing people
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. Evelyn Waugh
death disappointment mean
Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation. Eugene Kennedy
death people feelings
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned! Ivy Compton-Burnett
death philosophy design
Design is not for philosophy it's for life. Issey Miyake
death thinking mind
I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life. Isabelle Eberhardt