Quotes about death
death body spirit
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. John Dryden
death fate decay
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
death doors dies
Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die. John Masefield
death prayer sea
When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.
death doors waiting
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
death suffering systematic
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D. John le Carre
death someone-dying dies
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. Jimmy Buffett
death-of-a-loved-one remembrance dying
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. Joanna Lumley
death sunset literature
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
death doors wreaths
He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door. George Jones
death spiritual men
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. Emanuel Swedenborg
death spiritual men
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
death men heaven
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
death lying eye
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. Joseph Hall
death dying borders
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
death hypocrite men
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
death dying
I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect. Kathe Kollwitz
death fate men
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last. Katherine Anne Porter
death mexican shadow
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
death singers mourn
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
death sarcastic sarcasm
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn
death relief afraid-of-death
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
death wind mad
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. Joseph Conrad
death fall phones
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent. Langston Hughes
death father agony
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. John Keble
death flower thinking
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats
death brain may
When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".
death thank-god growing
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.
death sleep eagles
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
death thank-god quiet
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
death divorce sea
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
death
Death is Life's high meed.
death suicide enormous
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... John Kenneth Galbraith