Quotes about death
death mother night
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." Rabindranath Tagore
death humorous flames
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
death kindness losing-a-loved-one
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Haruki Murakami
death cadavers bitterness
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase. Gustave Flaubert
death believe feelings
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
death loss friend-died
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
death morning dying
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. John Dryden
death fear knows
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
death woe kind
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
death kings moments
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
death soul body
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
death body spirit
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
death fate decay
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
death doors dies
Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die. John Masefield
death prayer sea
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.
death doors waiting
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
death suffering systematic
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D. John le Carre
death lying eye
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. Joseph Hall
death dying borders
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
death hypocrite men
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
death dying
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz
death fate men
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. Katherine Anne Porter
death mexican shadow
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
death singers mourn
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
death sarcastic sarcasm
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn
death relief afraid-of-death
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
death wind mad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad
death fall phones
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes
death father agony
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. John Keble
death flower thinking
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats
death brain may
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
death thank-god growing
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.
death sleep eagles
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.