Friday, January 4, 2013

QUOTATIONS ABOUT DEATH


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God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.  ~Author Unknown



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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.  ~Mark Twain


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I'm not afraid of death.  It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.  ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929



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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.  ~Maurice Maeterlinck


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The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain



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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.  We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.  ~David Sarnoff



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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.  ~Francis Bacon, Essays


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If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.  ~From the television show Roseanne


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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.  ~Henry Van Dyke


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He who doesn't fear death dies only once.  ~Giovanni Falcone


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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.  ~Percival Arland Ussher


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The idea is to die young as late as possible.  ~Ashley Montagu


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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.  ~Lord Byron



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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.  ~Euripides


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I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.  ~Willa Cather



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Death is a distant rumor to the young.  ~Andrew A. Rooney


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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.  ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain


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There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.  ~Kenneth Patchen


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Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.  ~John Donne


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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.  ~Seneca


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Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
~Horace



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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, "People"



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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.  ~Jean de La Fontaine



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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.  ~Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky


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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.  ~Herodotus


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Death is not the greatest loss in life.  The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.  ~Norman Cousins


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Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers
And death as beautiful as autumn leaves.
~Rabindranath Tagore


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Death is a debt we all must pay.  ~Euripides


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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


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When I think of ages past
That have floated down the stream
Of life and love and death,
I feel how free it makes us
To pass away.

~Rabindranath Tagore



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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?  ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"  (Thanks, Roxalanne)


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Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! ~E.M. Cioran


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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity.

~Emily Bronte




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Paradise -
I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie.

~Yaitsu's death poem, 1807




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God made death so we'd know when to stop.  ~Steven Stiles


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Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.  ~Author Unknown


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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.  ~John Muir





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