Quotes about death
death sadness mean
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death. Blaise Pascal
death men agony
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?
death painful danger
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
death thinking bears
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
death atheist atheism
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
death dying
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
death suicide years
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
death jesus joy
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
deathbed man remember trouble worries worry
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill
death mainstream naturally parties
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. Timothy Noah
death wind thunderbolts
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. Charles Olson
death law accumulation
Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
death running hate
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. Denis Diderot
death-penalty penalties murderer
The death penalty makes us all murderers. Dean Smith
death men people
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. Dean Koontz
death mean odd-thomas
I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
death
While life could be evaded, death could not.
death fall dark
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. Daniel Handler
death curiosity left
I have only one curiosity left: death. Coco Chanel
death christian grief
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
death men dying
Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live. Clark Gable
death silence
There has never been such a silence. Elizabeth Taylor
death names dying
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell! Elizabeth I
death guilty obsessed
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti
death men important
It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
death dumb world
When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come! Arthur Guiterman
death birth
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Arlo Guthrie
death ashes green
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. Bayard Taylor
death silence may
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
death ideas eulogy
The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu
death referred until william
She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
death fight ran
She had to fight to the death all the way to the line. It was something else. She ran with everything she had.
death devil hath shame sin wages
Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages Thomas Watson