Quotes about death
death exercise swimming
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. John Donne
death dying too-much
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. John Osborne
death journey people
Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way. John O'Donohue
death spiritual broken
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.
death kindness acceptance
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the time comes for you to make the journey, you will receive a serenity, peace and a welcoming freedom that will enable you to go to the other world with great elegance, grace and acceptance.
death war unconquerable-will
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. John Milton
death keys eternity-of-life
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
death men forever
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. John Millington Synge
death time character
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. John Berger
death husband ashes
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day. Joan Rivers
death freedom cutting
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
death suicide writing
No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. Garrison Keillor
death men
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time. Frank Yerby
death men world
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power. Francois Fenelon
death humility hands
I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
death news improvement
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
death transition
Death is the great transition. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
death pain lessons
When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.
death pain long
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
death commitment needs
We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.
death lessons clue
Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.
death spring butterfly
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
death worry alive
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.
death pain war
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?
death self growth
Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.
death each-day ifs
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
death procrastination knowing
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
death facts accepting
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
death taught graduates
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.
death dying earth
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
death progress complaining
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
death real choices
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.
death children sky
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.