Quotes about death
death thank-god quiet
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave John Keats
death divorce sea
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
death
Death is Life's high meed.
death suicide enormous
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith
death habit synonym
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Juliette Binoche
death years enemy
Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping. Joshua L. Liebman
death stars children
The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."
death unexpected surprise
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar
death atheist oblivion
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Ouida
death-sentence sentences
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. Julie Payette
death loss
Death is the loss of everything all at once. Julie Salamon
death anxiety depth
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Paul Tillich
death art love-life
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. Paul Theroux
death heart dwelling-place
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough. Paul Klee
death names predicaments
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man
death snares midst
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us. Martin Luther
death angel journey
At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
death faith loneliness
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
death war halloween
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte
death eye wish
If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. Ozzy Osbourne
death routine heroism
Routine is the death to heroism. P. G. Wodehouse
death sports humorous
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
death pain lays
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.] Ovid
death men funeral
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
death sleep fate
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
death law goal
We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]
death men funeral
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
death tears widows
We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.
death birth cease
What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
death lying men
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
death sleep fool
O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?
death new-beginnings men
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
death here-and-there spirit
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.