Quotes about death
death men self
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. Leo Tolstoy
death letting-go mind
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go. Larry Kramer
death lying home
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street. Lewis H. Lapham
death white forever
It is the fear of death--24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.
death new-york hard-times
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
death looks different
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it. Lewis Carroll
death believe would-be
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.
death suicide enemy
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller
death habit synonym
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Juliette Binoche
death body spirit
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. John Dryden
death fate decay
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
death doors dies
Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die. John Masefield
death prayer sea
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.
death doors waiting
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
death suffering systematic
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D. John le Carre
death someone-dying dies
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. Jimmy Buffett
death-of-a-loved-one remembrance dying
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. Joanna Lumley
death sunset literature
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
death doors wreaths
He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door. George Jones
death spiritual men
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. Emanuel Swedenborg
death spiritual men
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
death men heaven
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
death lying eye
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. Joseph Hall
death dying borders
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
death hypocrite men
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
death dying
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz
death fate men
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. Katherine Anne Porter
death mexican shadow
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
death singers mourn
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
death sarcastic sarcasm
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn
death relief afraid-of-death
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
death wind mad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad
death fall phones
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes