Quotes about death
death country
I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see. William Blake
death despair torment
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
death eye heart
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
death art science
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
death dying bones
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
death pain book
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. Wallace Stegner
death weed growing-up
The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. Samuel Richardson
death dying forget
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. Samuel Butler
death men dying
If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
death people dying
Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.
death oil lamps
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
death people funeral
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Samuel Goldwyn
death birth
Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett
death air dying
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
death imagination people
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument. Salman Rushdie
death honesty
With death comes honesty.
death self years
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me W. S. Merwin
death boon ifs
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. W. S. Gilbert
death philosophical picnics
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. W. H. Auden
death cities voice
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
death children thoughtful
Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral
death men gmos
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
death war men
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
death country taxation
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. William Cobbett
death dream flower
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. William Cowper
death looks
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
death dust turns
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
death suicide dying
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed
death men feet
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Wilfred Owen
death war lying
I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
death men envy
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
death long heaven
Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).] Thomas Heywood
death fear may
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die… Thomas Hardy