Quotes about death
death
Death doesn't frighten me. Princess Diana
death command dies
To die at the command of another is to die twice. Publilius Syrus
death children too-late
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
death-penalty sentences death-sentence
The death sentence is a barbaric act. Nelson Mandela
death ends
The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end. Neil Young
death running believe
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
death kings heaven
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles Niccolo Machiavelli
death father loss
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
death science care
For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds. John Armstrong
death wisdom effort
It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that Closes down over all your effort like the moment Of death John Ashbery
death wise office
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
death book dying
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....
death heart loss
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? Jodi Picoult
death giving lasts
God gives quietness at last. John Greenleaf Whittier
death art hands
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
death dying waste
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed. Keanu Reeves
death bed said
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. Kingsley Amis
death dying young
Only the young die good. Oliver Herford
death distance friendly
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. Oliver Goldsmith
death lonely dark
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way. Margaret Atwood
death children home
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.
death country immortality
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Marcus Tullius Cicero
death courage men
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
death wish-to-die care
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
death extinction lasts
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]
death home inns
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
death men complaining
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
death home quitting
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
death home sight
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
death roots soul
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
death regret home
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.