Quotes about death
death soul body
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death lonely dying
dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spiritual health
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death butterfly grieving
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death spiritual self
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death moving car
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death running zero
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death peace war
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez
death men dying
If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. Lionel Barrymore
death suicide harps
I've played everything but the harp. Lionel Barrymore
death dancing ragged
Death is dancing me ragged. Linda Hogan
death party caskets
The party don't stop, til the casket drop. Lil' Kim
death people leaving
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving. Lilith Saintcrow
death dying peasants
But the peasants - how do the peasants die? Leo Tolstoy
death ideas mistaken
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. Leo Tolstoy
death wells dies
Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it? Leo Tolstoy
death men self
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. Leo Tolstoy
death letting-go mind
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go. Larry Kramer
death lying home
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street. Lewis H. Lapham
death white forever
It is the fear of death--24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever. Lewis H. Lapham
death new-york hard-times
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth. Lewis H. Lapham
death looks different
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it. Lewis Carroll
death believe would-be
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. Lewis Carroll
death suicide enemy
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller
death mother peace
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa
death age birth
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. Peter Ustinov
death dying remedy
There's a remedy for everything except death. Peter O'Toole
death overcoming finding-god
You must overcome death by finding God in it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
death running unhappy
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson
death life-and-love past
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. Rabindranath Tagore
death men order
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying? Rabindranath Tagore
death lamps dawn
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared. Rabindranath Tagore
death giving coins
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. Rabindranath Tagore