Death Quotes - Page 32

• Everything that gets born dies.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Born, Dies

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Trying, Greatest Love

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Dying, Born

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.46, Luigi Pirandello

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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

  Wise, Office, Purpose

  John Ashbery (2011). “The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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• The great thing about the dead, they make space.

  John Updike

  Space, Great Things

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.5, Random House

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• Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Matter, Oh Well, Wells

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• There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Teeth, Spite, Remedy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.318

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• It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

  John le Carre

  Suffering, Systematic, Bigs

  John le Carre (2002). “Smiley's People”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cells, Graves, Monasteries

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Flames, Funeral, Hatred

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• Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hands, Way, Hundred

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Murder in the Cathedral”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, And Love, Made

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “The history of the world”, p.271

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• As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mother, Children, Fall

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• Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

  Thomas a Kempis

  May, Thee, Prepared

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Thinking, Desire, Alive

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.365, Oxford University Press

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• Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Sunshine, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.299, Princeton University Press

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• Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
  The ground opens up and envelopes me
  Each time I go out to walk the dog.

  Amiri Baraka

  Dog, Envelopes, Way

  "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" l. 1 (1961)

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• To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Parent, Beloved

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• I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Long, Wish

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• To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Animal, Views, Desire

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• Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Men, Forever

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