Quotes about death
death fear-of-death prove
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal. Joseph Addison
death people dying
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison
death book extinction
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction. Lance Morrow
death country heaven
We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash. Johnny Cash
death grief loss
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. Johnny Cash
death space great-things
The great thing about the dead, they make space. John Updike
death heart lasts
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. John Ray
death blessed path
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. James Joyce
death way different
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. James Joyce
death kings hands
Death lays his icy hand on kings. James Shirley
death littles rooms
How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds! James Shirley
death angel dying
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. James Russell Lowell
death believe glasses
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. James Russell Lowell
death wise country
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day. James Russell Lowell
death men hands
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. Laurence Sterne
death stress may
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on. Laurence Sterne
death dying doe
What shall he fear that does not fear death. Friedrich Schiller
death dying benefits
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. Friedrich Schiller
death sweet eye
Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death. Friedrich Schiller
death pain struggle
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure. Friedrich Schiller
death wise daughter
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. Friedrich Schiller
death passages rite
Death is the least civilized rite of passage. Louise Erdrich
death heart different
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. Louise Erdrich
death
Life for the living, and rest for the dead! George Arnold
death life-is ends
Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it. Henry Rollins
death fate bereavement
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau
death sleep dying
I'll sleep well tonight Henry Ford
death heart men
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents. Mahatma Gandhi
death shadow valleys
I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes. Mahatma Gandhi
death men fearless
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself? Mahatma Gandhi
death party thinking
Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government. Mahatma Gandhi
death country eye
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry. Mahatma Gandhi
death essence killing
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated. Mahatma Gandhi