Death Quotes - Page 35

• Death persecutes before it executes.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Shadow, Valleys, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Men, Law

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Matter, Oh Well, Wells

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• To die at the command of another is to die twice.

  Publilius Syrus

  Command, Dies

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• Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Real, Shapes

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.462, Book House

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• The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Vanity, Broken, May

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8354, Delphi Classics

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• We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
  and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
  and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dying, Rising, World

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions

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• I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  War, Black, World

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• The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Liberty, Premeditation, Dies

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.82

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• There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Constraints, Know How

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Grief, Evil, Support

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.360

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• To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Oneself

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• Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Men, Usual, Succeed

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• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Cities, Voice, Mourning

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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