Death Quotes - Page 39

• And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I think, than of birds - when it was impossible not to feel, like another essence of the sunlight, the bittersweet of life that lingers about old houses, and places where men have died, and things that forgotten hands have touched.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

  Frank Dane

  News, Politics, Improvement

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Garden, Heaven, Dying

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will just make your day.

  Edward James Salisbury

  Suicide, Names, Firsts

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• When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

  Theognis of Megara

  Dying, Bed

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• Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

  Zicheng Hong

  Life, Retirement, Animal

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Thousand, Honour

  "Cato, A Tragedy". Play by Joseph Addison, 1713.

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• Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

  W. H. Auden

  Philosophical, Sound, Picnics

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• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Science, Perception, Mind

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• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Talking, Demand, Speak

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• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Believe, Simulacrum

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.67, Verso

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Time, Destiny, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

  Robert Benchley

  Suicide, Men, Feelings

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• Gags die, humor doesn't.

  Jack Benny

  Humor, Gags, Dies

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

  John Berger

  Time, Character, Modern

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.751, Vintage

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• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Believe, Past

  "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 41, 1985.

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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Thomas Browne

  Animal, Men, Dying

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Happiness, Greek, Unhappy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

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• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Passion, Long

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• If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Body, Sparks

  William Jennings Bryan's eulogy at Elks Lodge annual memorial service in Lincoln, Nebraska (December 2, 1906), as reported by the Nebraska State Journal (p. 3), December 3, 1906.

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• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Life, Taken

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  Samuel Butler

  Doubt, Dying, Criminals

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• They never fail who die in a great cause.

  Lord Byron

  Failure, Sacrifice, Discipline

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

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• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Heart, Dying

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.234, Vintage

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• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Race, Body

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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