DEATH QUOTES VII

quotations about death

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Even dead,
we bony creatures do our best
to leave a mark--
if not a mask of beaten gold
or a casket engraved with feathers, perhaps
a richer concentration of fungus,
a patch where grass is younger and thicker,
a sunken place in a field.

SARAH LINDSAY

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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most people live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

DEAN KOONTZ

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And death, that sits in marble silence cold,
Will furnish hope to those who may behold
The meaning in the everlasting change
Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

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What happens when the thought of death occurs, this very simple and basic thought about death, that I will most certainly die, and that you will most certainly die, is that all these other questions are stripped down to basic, that the very basis for knowledge and existence is shivering, whether one is trembling in tears for another or oneself shivering in anxiety and awe. Hence, at the end we return to the place where we began, at the graveside.

MARIUS TIMMANN MJAALAND

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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

JEAN COCTEAU

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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

JOHN ASHBERY

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There comes a time when living becomes something like a competition, when one shamelessly rejoices over the death of one's neighbour, as if he were a rival who has been eliminated.

PIERRE MAGNAN

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Death lieth still in the way of life,
Like as a stone in the way of a brook;
I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does,
I will make thee into music which does not die.

SIDNEY LANIER

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Death commences too early--almost before you're half acquainted with life--you meet the other.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

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There is death and love
And awful things
The sunlight takes away
All that it brings

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW

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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J. K. ROWLING

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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

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Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

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For death is but a passing phase of Life;
A change of dress, a disrobing;
A birth into the unborn again;
A commencing where we ended;
A starting where we stopped to rest;
A crossroad of Eternity;
A giving up of something, to possess all things.
The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

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Now can it be men die and carry thence no memory of death, only this curious lightness of the hands, only this curious darkness of the mind, only to be still changeless with the winters passing; not gray, not lined, not stricken down, but stamped forever on the moving air, and echo and an image?

MAXWELL ANDERSON

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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

JOSEPH ADDISON

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For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

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In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end.

BERNARD BECKETT

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God, give us each our own death,
the dying that proceeds
from each of our lives.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

THOMAS MANN

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