Quotes about death
death kindness losing-a-loved-one
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Haruki Murakami
death cadavers bitterness
Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase. Gustave Flaubert
death believe feelings
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
death loss friend-died
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
death morning dying
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. John Dryden
death fear knows
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
death woe kind
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
death kings moments
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
death soul body
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
death sleep men
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Lord Byron
death drug crux
The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs. John Cheever
death love-is anchors
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death. John Boyle O'Reilly
death life major stories
You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
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.
deaths example led millions rarely reported seen seven wars western
The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to the deaths of millions of people, and yet it is rarely reported in the Western press.
death fountain life waters
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. Rabindranath Tagore
death funerals occur
The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough. Mark Twain
death release ifs
Death is release, if you've lived all right. Edward Albee
death neighbor
Death is my neighbor now. Edith Evans
deaths expand firearms john measures
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
death fail limit matter
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. Chuck Palahniuk
death man millions
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
death man
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
death million
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
death keys
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
death funny life love people
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix
death kids left threats threw
Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. Kevyn Aucoin
death suicide lasts
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!' Jon Stewart
death people religion
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
death husband thinking
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive. Joyce Carol Oates
death dinosaurs different
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that. Richard Dawkins
death believe knows
Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know. Richelle Mead