Quotes about death
death long healthy
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. Wendell Berry
death spiritual religious
It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few. Walter Pater
death ambition pride
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Walter Raleigh
death men and-love
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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