Quotes about death
death sleep thinking
I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge. Jackson Pollock
death passages rite
Death is the least civilized rite of passage. Louise Erdrich
death heart different
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
death
Life for the living, and rest for the dead! George Arnold
death travel adventure
To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie
death adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure.
death sight lines
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. Joan Didion
death life-death made
Once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix
death angel wings
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
death hurt pain
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
death forever dying
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. Emma Stone
death dream dust
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. John Mellencamp
death growing-up fun
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
death grief loss
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
death woe lows
And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood
death folks
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death. John Hiatt
death world care
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
death science men
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. John Harvey Kellogg
death died gods good monster novel words wrote
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off. Wilbur Smith
death sex two
There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to be avoided. They are deeply connected. Sex represents life because all life arises out of sex, and death represents the end. And both have been taboo - don't talk about sex and don't talk about death. Rajneesh
death storm dying
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. Rainer Maria Rilke
death sides
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
death illness cures
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. Michael Landon
death roots bored
As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have I bored into life to find what lay therein, And now it is time to die, And I will fly to another tree. Sidney Lanier
death stones way
Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.
death determination lying
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
death eye hands
I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born. Neil Kinnock
death patience giving
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time. Neil Gaiman
death horse white
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.
death dying world
We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. John Wayne
death government law
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. John Ruskin
death life-or-death wells
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
death two eden
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck