Natural Death Quotes

• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

  Pope Francis

  Sanctuary, Natural, Human Life

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

  George Orwell

  Life, Death, War

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The experience of our generation:
  that capitalism will not die a natural death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Our Generation, Generations, Natural

  Walter Benjamin, Rolf Tiedemann (1999). “The Arcades Project”, p.948, Harvard University Press

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• I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

  Ted Cruz

  Culture, Moments, Natural

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.

  Norma McCorvey

  Book, Dignity, Natural

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• When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Hair

  "The Last Messiah". Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.

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• Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Thinking, Differences

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

  Thomas Paine

  Calumny Is, Trying, Vices

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Simple, Technology, Class

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31, 1960.

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• When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Country, Law

  "The Obscurity of the Poet," Harvard University lecture, published in "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, 1953.

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• There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.

  George Weigel

  Self, Giving, Interviews

  Source: eppc.org

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• I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Support, Protection, Natural

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• Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

  Juvenal

  Tyrants, Natural, Regions

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• The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

  Francis George

  Light, Abortion, Moral

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Betrayal

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• Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

  Samuel Garth

  Gentleman, Natural, Let Me

  Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (centenary edition), revised by Ivor Evans (1975)

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• There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.

  Paul Kagame

  Running, Men, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

  Alveda King

  Jobs, Successful, Men

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• There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, World, Natural

  A Very Easy Death

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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Religious, Dying

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

  Katy Butler

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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