Quotes about death
death nature want
I want death to find me planting my cabbages. Michel de Montaigne
death men age
God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
death benefits virtue
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
death boots should
One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
death grief evil
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
death evil constraints
There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
death liberty premeditation
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
death philosophical dies
To philosophize is to learn to die.
death fear air
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
death dying way
Dying is a really hard way to learn about life. Michael Keaton
death people sometimes
It kills me sometimes, how people die. Markus Zusak
death smart writing
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. Mark Twain
death men meat
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
death men brave
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
death heart broken
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.
death rich pity
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
death believe men
It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.
death heaven wish
When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell. Marilyn Manson
death suicide reason
Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.
death suicide song
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
death memories health
Play Mozart in memory of me. Frederic Chopin
death health islands
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
death sleep health
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
death nature purpose
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Francois Rabelais
death daughter mother
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.
death eye want
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me. Christopher Hitchens
death dying alive
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. Chris Hemsworth
death women independent
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer
death thinking dying
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying Gerard Way
death snakes progress
The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out. George Washington Carver
death father moving
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. George Washington
death evil dying
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. George Santayana
death dark birth
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.