Quotes about death
death justice cry
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
death regret world
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. Ludovico Ariosto
death dad raises
My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me. Ludacris
death failure sacrifice
They never fail who die in a great cause. Lord Byron
death desire certain
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
death hair dust
I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
death sunset may
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
death self long
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be. Lord Chesterfield
death thinking desire
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
death wise faces
The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin. Mahatma Gandhi
death views long
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
death midst darkness-to-light
... in the midst of death life persists ...
death men live-free
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
death acceptance successful
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. Freya Stark
death years enemy
Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping. Joshua L. Liebman
death stars children
The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."
death unexpected surprise
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar
death atheist oblivion
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Ouida
death-sentence sentences
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. Julie Payette
death loss
Death is the loss of everything all at once. Julie Salamon
death anxiety depth
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Paul Tillich
death art love-life
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. Paul Theroux
death heart dwelling-place
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough. Paul Klee
death names predicaments
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man
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.