Quotes about death
death dream flower
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. William Cowper
death dust turns
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
death suicide dying
Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfrid Sheed
death men feet
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Wilfred Owen
death war lying
I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
death men envy
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
death dying world
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'. W. Somerset Maugham
death tonight baghdad
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
death night thinking
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. Vladimir Nabokov
death light rocks
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
death dark light
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn
death art ruins
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
death life-is end-of-life
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
death grief sea
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
death dark suffering
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.
death im-sorry dying
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. William Makepeace Thackeray
death kissing fighting
In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. Yevgeny Yevtushenko