Quotes about death
death husband ideas
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. Kin Hubbard
death sweet fall
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth. Michelangelo
death numbers widows
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.
death afterlife doe
George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive. Michael Palin
death player luck
Players never die - they just try their luck at another table. Michael Douglas
death running pain
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. Ray Bradbury
death lying reading
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
death loss thinking
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
death real believe
There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. Eric Hoffer
death dying world
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
death war dying
if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned. Enid Bagnold
death people used
As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.
death night iron
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. James F. Cooper
death life-is ends
Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it. Henry Rollins
death fate bereavement
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau
death sleep dying
I'll sleep well tonight Henry Ford
death dream dark
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare. Mary Webb
death stones oblivion
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens. Pablo Neruda
death perception god-love
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.] Plautus
death men blessing
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. Plato
death men excellence
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
death real knowing
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
death men hours
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
death children men
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
death night men
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
death rounds
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round. Philip Larkin
death courage mean
Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.
death fear-of-death walks
Walk with the dead For fear of death.
death book extinction
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction. Lance Morrow
death country heaven
We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash. Johnny Cash
death grief loss
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
death space great-things
The great thing about the dead, they make space. John Updike
death heart lasts
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. John Ray