Quotes about death
death evil kind
An evil life is a kind of death. Ovid
death dog horse
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive. Paul Newman
death dying dies
We all die. It's just a question of when. Paul Newman
death suicide
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber). Paul Erdos
death prayer pain
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. Mark Helprin
death military giving
Give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry
death almighty proof
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. Joseph Brodsky
death ends
The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end. Neil Young
death running believe
It's better to burn out, than to fade away. Neil Young
death kings heaven
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles Niccolo Machiavelli
death father loss
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony Niccolo Machiavelli
death science care
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. John Armstrong
death wisdom effort
It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that Closes down over all your effort like the moment Of death John Ashbery
death wise office
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. John Ashbery
death book dying
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.... John Ashbery
death heart loss
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Jodi Picoult
death giving lasts
God gives quietness at last. John Greenleaf Whittier
death art hands
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. John Greenleaf Whittier
death remember humans
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. John Green
death real loving-someone
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. John Green
death boring
Death. It doesn't have to be boring. Mary Roach
death nurse slumber
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal. Martin Farquhar Tupper
death truth philosophical
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger
death real animal
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. Marquis de Sade
death thinking design
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth
death sorry fighting
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down. Nick Hornby
death nice fetch
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! Mark Twain
death years finals
Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. Nicholas Sparks
death waiting mind
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. Oscar Wilde
death mean dying
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) Oscar Wilde
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself. Lydia M. Child
death sleep forgotten
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] Lucretius
death generations may
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. Lucretius