Quotes about death
death power government
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. Woodrow Wilson
death suicide children
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ? Saint Augustine
death blood people
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood. Yasser Arafat
death funeral remembrance
Everyone dies but not everyone lives. William Wallace
death war civilization
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers
death government political-will
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
death suicide grandmother
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?' Zach Galifianakis
death grief air
I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. Zhuangzi
death men return
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
death dying action
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. William Hazlitt
death dying cures
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
death country horse
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
death causes youth
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
death giving trouble
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
death wise dark
O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light. William Davenant
death science action
It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi. William E. Gladstone
death long healthy
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. Wendell Berry
death spiritual religious
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few. Walter Pater
death ambition pride
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Walter Raleigh
death men and-love
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
death fall autumn
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf. Vincent Van Gogh
death past relief
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings. Wayne Dyer
death moving rooms
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.
death dimensions
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
death dark winning
And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end. Walter de La Mare
death feelings important
A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead. Walter Benjamin
death stories storytelling
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
death men giving
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. Virginia Woolf
death despair torment
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. William Blake
death eye heart
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
death art science
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
death dying bones
Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
death pain book
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. Wallace Stegner