Quotes about death
death finals ends
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness. George Santayana
death hero dying
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche
death humorous profound
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
death science knives
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
death live-life hands
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
death suicide children
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
death lying sunset
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. John Milton
death life-death dies
Where all life dies death lives.
death ready
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
death sleep immortal-life
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
death names caves
I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
death people dying
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? Norman Cousins
death cheating past
The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death. Norm MacDonald
death suicide guarantees-that
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? Noel Coward
death truth-is you-live-you-learn
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. Mitch Albom
death love-each-other dies
Love each other or die.
death life-changing forgiving
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
death wise world
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. Miguel de Cervantes
death remedy wells
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
death sheep dying
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep.
death
Until death it is all life
death teeth spite
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
death speech hours
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. Thomas Jefferson
death atheist war
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
death wisdom religious
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
deaths example led millions rarely reported seen seven wars western
The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to the deaths of millions of people, and yet it is rarely reported in the Western press.
death fountain life waters
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. Rabindranath Tagore
death funerals occur
The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough. Mark Twain
death release ifs
Death is release, if you've lived all right. Edward Albee
death neighbor
Death is my neighbor now. Edith Evans
deaths expand firearms john measures
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
death fail limit matter
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. Chuck Palahniuk
death man millions
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin