Quotes about death
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero
death running men
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. Mark Twain
death government dying
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers? P. J. O'Rourke
death grief funeral
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
death fathers-day children
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
death failure character
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
death hypocrisy dying
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde
death waiting mind
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
death mean dying
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself. Lydia M. Child
death sleep forgotten
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.] Lucretius
death generations may
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
death past leaving
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.
death people statistics
it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament. Liv Ullmann
death uncles tombstone
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? Margaret Smith
death science population
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources. Margaret Sanger
death dimensions modest
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Michael Cunningham
death lovely
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
death inspiration misquoting
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
death exaggeration-is exaggerated
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
death motivational-sports fear
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
death thinking self
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
death suicide religious
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
death suicide inspiration
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
death sunday people
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
death boring
Death. It doesn't have to be boring. Mary Roach
death nurse slumber
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal. Martin Farquhar Tupper
death truth philosophical
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Martin Heidegger
death real animal
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. Marquis de Sade
death thinking design
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth
death sorry fighting
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down. Nick Hornby