Quotes about death
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 travel adventure
To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie
death adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure.
death sight lines
I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. Joan Didion
death life-death made
Once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix
death angel wings
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
death hurt pain
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
death forever dying
What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. Emma Stone
death dream dust
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. John Mellencamp
death growing-up fun
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
death grief loss
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part. John Irving
death woe lows
And death makes equal the high and low. John Heywood
death folks
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death. John Hiatt
death world care
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low.
death science men
To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases. John Harvey Kellogg
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 sex two
There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to be avoided. They are deeply connected. Sex represents life because all life arises out of sex, and death represents the end. And both have been taboo - don't talk about sex and don't talk about death. Rajneesh
death storm dying
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. Rainer Maria Rilke
death sides
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
death illness cures
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. Michael Landon
death roots bored
As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have I bored into life to find what lay therein, And now it is time to die, And I will fly to another tree. Sidney Lanier
death stones way
Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.
death determination lying
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
death years might
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. John Henry Newman
death flower blessed
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality. John Evelyn
death art thinking
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne
death sheets intricate
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
death grief bereavement
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
death peace grief
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
death book men
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
death time block
Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers. John Dos Passos
death men good-man
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.