Death Quotes - Page 84

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

We are all dead men on leave.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

To awake from death is to die in peace.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.