Death And Dying Quotes - Page 6

• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Betrayal, Men

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Men, Gmos

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

  Aleister Crowley

  Conquer, Prestige, Certain

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.255, Weiser Books

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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.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Death, Children

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

  Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Death

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Ugly Things, Dying

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Waiting, Love And Death, Death Poems

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• Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Death, Children

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Dying

  Mark Twain (2016). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Men, Civilization

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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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

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

  Brian Williams

  Life, Death, Dream

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And, with his sickle keen,
  He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
  And the flowers that grow between.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Flower, Names

  "The Reaper and the Flowers" st. 1 (1839)

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Death, Hands

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• Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Death, People, Eulogy

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