Quotes about death
death past leaving
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest. Lucretius
death people statistics
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. Liv Ullmann
death uncles tombstone
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? Margaret Smith
death science population
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources. Margaret Sanger
death dimensions modest
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Michael Cunningham
death lovely
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out. Mark Twain
death inspiration misquoting
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
death exaggeration-is exaggerated
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
death motivational-sports fear
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
death thinking self
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
death suicide religious
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
death suicide inspiration
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
death sunday people
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
death boring
Death. It doesn't have to be boring. Mary Roach
death nurse slumber
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal. Martin Farquhar Tupper
death truth philosophical
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger
death real animal
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. Marquis de Sade
death thinking design
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth
death sorry fighting
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down. Nick Hornby
death nice fetch
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!
death years finals
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. Nicholas Sparks
death remember humans
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. John Green
death real loving-someone
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
death eye wish
If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. Ozzy Osbourne
death routine heroism
Routine is the death to heroism. P. G. Wodehouse
death sports humorous
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
death pain lays
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] Ovid
death men funeral
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
death sleep fate
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
death law goal
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]
death men funeral
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.