Quotes about death
death men meat
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. Mark Twain
death men brave
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
death heart broken
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.
death rich pity
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
death believe men
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.
death heaven wish
When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell. Marilyn Manson
death suicide reason
Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.
death suicide song
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
death memories health
Play Mozart in memory of me. Frederic Chopin
death health islands
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
death sleep health
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
death nature purpose
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais
death daughter mother
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
death eye want
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. Christopher Hitchens
death dying alive
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. Chris Hemsworth
death women independent
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer
death thinking dying
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying Gerard Way
death snakes progress
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out. George Washington Carver
death father moving
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. George Washington
death evil dying
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. George Santayana
death dark birth
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
death finals ends
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
death hero dying
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
death humorous profound
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
death science knives
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
death live-life hands
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
death suicide children
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
death crush breathing
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death? Marcel Proust
death animal broken
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.
death diversity peculiar
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
death filled-in afternoon
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
death thinking people
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
death fear-of-death prove
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal. Joseph Addison