Quotes about death
death science perception
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
death if-there-is-a-god wells
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
death men names
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
death believe heaven
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
death philosophical dying
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
death differences painful
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. Marcia Muller
death men shadow
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow. Thomas a Kempis
death may thee
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
death dying nemo
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
death dying passing-away
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
death pleasure nations
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Samuel Johnson
death time men
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
death garden dying
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. Robert Hunter
death names lasts
My name is Death: the last best friend am I. Robert Southey
death blessed quiet
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. Robert Louis Stevenson
death heart eye
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.
death lying home
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
death life-death easier
If this is death, it is easier than life.
death lying father
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
death baby buddhist
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
death lonely midnight
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight. Robert E. Howard
death stand-alone dies
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
death ocean eternity
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
death dream inspiration
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
death brother unions
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. Walt Whitman
death children men
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death waiting short-death
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
death night hands
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
death night lovely
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
death spiritual vehement
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.