Quotes about death
death truth men
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
death dark soul
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
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 done said
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland. Philip Sidney
death want architecture
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Philip Johnson
death war blood
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. Philip James Bailey
death kings flower
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.
death art littles
Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.
death life-death another-life
Death is another life.
death dying gone
He has gone over to the majority.
death short-circuit mother-night
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Marlene Dietrich
death knowing perfect
Death is the perfect knowing.
death truth growing-up
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck
death flower garden
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death. May Sarton
death failure loss
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
death technology body
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! Max Frisch
death mistake technology
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.
death attitude wine
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.
death people tears
Why do dying people never shed tears?
death heaven wish
When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell. Marilyn Manson
death suicide reason
Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.
death suicide song
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?