Quotes about death
death suicide men
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. Homer
death men teeth
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
death iliad inches
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
death feels
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
death song men
That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.
death men eulogy
And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
death happen happens moved people retiring
If it happens once, it happens too often. Most of the appointments are with people who are retiring or who have moved on to other positions. A vacancy because of a death doesn't happen too often.
death
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
death eight horrific innocent might otherwise people public punishment studies support though
I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not. Ed Koch
death slow
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
death elephants car
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. Hunter S. Thompson
death should-have nine
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
death goodbye kissing
Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye. Howard Dietz
death science actors
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared. Honore de Balzac
death cancer cells
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. Harold Pinter
death character funeral
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended. James Boswell
death strong tree
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
death children play
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them. Jamaica Kincaid
death wish needs
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien
death wise giving
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
death past desire
There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. Isaac Asimov
death atheist if-there-is-a-god
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
death forgiving may
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew. Elton John
death orthodoxy
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. Stephen Kinzer
death faith god pleased translated
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
death crush breathing
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death? Marcel Proust
death animal broken
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.
death diversity peculiar
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
death filled-in afternoon
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
death thinking people
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
death fear-of-death prove
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal. Joseph Addison
death honor thousand
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
death people dying
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.