Death Quotes
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When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
Jasper Fforde
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Plato
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A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?
P. J. O'Rourke
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
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Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
Hassan Nasrallah
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de Beauvoir
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.
Emily Dickinson
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A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life.
John Milton
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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
Meghan O'Rourke
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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
Nobuyoshi Araki
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Plato
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Just as, when a cow to be slaughtered is led to the shambles, whenever she lifts a leg she will be closer to slaughter, closer to death; even so, brahmins, is human life like cattle doomed to slaughter; it is short, limited, and brief. It is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
