Quotes about death
death tears widows
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre. Ovid
death birth cease
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
death lying men
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
death sleep fool
O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?
death new-beginnings men
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
death here-and-there spirit
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.
death evil kind
An evil life is a kind of death.
death dog horse
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. Paul Newman
death dying dies
We all die. It's just a question of when.
death suicide
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber). Paul Erdos
death prayer pain
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. Mark Helprin
death men lazy-man
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. Michel De Certeau
death years alive
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. Michel de Montaigne
death foundation life-is
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
death men birth
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
death guests feds
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest ...
death dying obligation
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
death oneself
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
death book people
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
death work garden
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
death life-and-death trouble
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
death nature want
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
death men age
God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
death benefits virtue
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
death boots should
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
death grief evil
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
death evil constraints
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
death liberty premeditation
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
death philosophical dies
To philosophize is to learn to die.
death fear air
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
death dying way
Dying is a really hard way to learn about life. Michael Keaton
death people sometimes
It kills me sometimes, how people die. Markus Zusak
death smart writing
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. Mark Twain