Quotes about death
death country people
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn." Walt Whitman
death dying leaves-of-grass
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
death dying looks
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
death dying waste
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it? Saul Williams
death believe grief
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Saul Alinsky
death blow endless-time
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound... Tom Stoppard
death truth-is knows
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death. Sam Harris
death loss genuine-concern
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
death dirty self
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either. S. I. Hayakawa
death-penalty guilty innocent
It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent. Ronald Jones
death alive
There are some dead who are more alive than the living. Romain Rolland
death dying sweetheart
Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. Sally Field
death wisdom fear
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Rumi
death too-much
The dead are too much with us. Roger Zelazny
death dying way
To each person, their own way of death - with dignity. Susan Sarandon
death dying world
Everything in the world finds peace - eventually. Tao Okamoto
death ends one-thing
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. Simone Elkeles
death time destiny
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
death wisdom heart
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton
death dying
Rest is for the dead. Thomas Carlyle
death remedy all-things
There are remedies for all things but death.
death want awake
I want to meet my God awake.
death men two
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
death new-york husband
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. Steve Carell
death suicide dark
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
death body consciousness
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body. Stanislav Grof
death suicide forever
I'm going to live forever, or die trying ! Spider Robinson
death suicide sick
I told you I was sick. Spike Milligan
death suicide dying
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. Sigmund Freud
death suicide killers
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared. Sergio Leone
death suicide men
Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man. Robert A. Heinlein
death mean dying
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Thomas Troward
death running track
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson