Quotes about death
death space water
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime! Rupert Brooke
death laughing proud
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend! Rupert Brooke
death long admiration
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. Rupert Brooke
death men wind
But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies. Rupert Brooke
death agony enemy
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. Rupert Brooke
death night world
The world is a playground, and death is the night. Rumi
death eternity our-wedding
Our death is our wedding with eternity. Rumi
death afterlife dying
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi
death thinking challenges
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay
death might lovers
There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this. Steven Curtis Chapman
death heaven gold
Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. Sue Monk Kidd
death being-yourself mean
It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart, And called himself the monarch of the world; Then, going in the tire-room afterward, Because the play was done, to shift himself, Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly, The moment he had shut the closet door, By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope At unawares, ask what his baubles mean, And whose part he presumed to play just now. Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! Robert Browning
death mean dying
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live. Robert Browning
death advice
Shun death, is my advice. Robert Browning
death men dying
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. Richard Harris
death eye vanity
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. T. S. Eliot
death skulls skins
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. T. S. Eliot
death hands way
Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. T. S. Eliot
death communication fire
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T. S. Eliot
death running laughter
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth. T. S. Eliot
death dying life-is
It is worth dying to find out what life is. T. S. Eliot
death dance recovery
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot
death different birth
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot
death poetry religion
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot
death years dying
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. T. S. Eliot
death suicide moments
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. Sylvester Stallone
death memorial dying
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Susan Sontag
death religious dying
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag
death sex pornography
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. Susan Sontag
death dying unbearable
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I. Susan Sontag
death dying use
The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation. Tryon Edwards
death may bread
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tryon Edwards
death favorite-hobby hobbies
Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies Rick Riordan