Quotes about death
death doubt shade
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A. H. L. Mencken
death today tomorrow
Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow. Ja Rule
death military civilization
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer
death arrows dying
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. Georg Hermes
death names history
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. Georg Buchner
death dying want
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us! Friedrich Nietzsche
death blessing odysseus
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
death men heard
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
death soul poison
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
death children suicidal
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
death journey thinking
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
death sun
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
death eye dying
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
death eye office
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
death men people
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
death determination men
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
death enemy overcoming
If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. Francis Quarles
death men air
The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
death lying long
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
death spring flames
Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?
death wise heart
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
death justice honor
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
death looks faces
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face. Ian Fleming
death lasts limits
Death is the last limit of all things. Horace
death matter boundaries
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
death suicide cutting
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
death night way
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]
death kings towers
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
death sooner-or-later compelled
We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth. [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura.]
death names
In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]
death years lasts
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
death kings feet
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
death fear pride
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann