Quotes about death
death goal construction
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. Mason Cooley
death surface beneath-the-surface
Death is always there, just beneath the surface.
death ifs around-the-corner
Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.
death promise oblivion
Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.
death right-time dies
The right time to die is never exactly now.
death fall tragedy
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
death abuse dies
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die. Mencius
death suicide mark
Time marks us while we are marking time. Theodore Roethke
death mean tragedy
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. Theodore Roosevelt
death war ridiculous
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
death house mourning
The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. Theodore L. Cuyler
death thinking laughing
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. Terry Pratchett
death tunnels light
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
death wisdom atheist
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
death shining shadow
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
death effectiveness destroying
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. Margaret J. Wheatley
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 living lord thank
I just thank the Lord because death did not come, ... The living things were spared.
death
I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it. Manolo Blahnik
death deserve law lives officers penalty police risk solid
Clearly, our police officers deserve a solid death penalty law because they place their lives at risk every day.
death named streetcar
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' Mike Nichols
death love music respect scared screwing
I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up. Elijah Wood
death people sentence
If not this case, then when is a death sentence appropriate? How many people have to die?
death japanese lifetime likely propose public reject
If lawmakers propose lifetime imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty, the Japanese public is not likely to reject it.
death died gods good monster novel words wrote
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off. Wilbur Smith
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.