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" Quotes and Sayings About death

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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Nothing in life is promised except death.

Nothing Life Is Promised
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The goal of all life is death.

Death Goal Of Life
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Allowing Although Both Closet
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Being Breath Death Dying
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Being Death Down Get
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Another Another Way Come Death
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The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.

Compassionate Death Made Me
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Before Death God He
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I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Buddies Death Great Him
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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Also Another Death Life
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Become Corporate Death Guard
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Death Dreaded Fear Pain
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Books Death Death Penalty Most
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Art Maturity Men
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Continue Death End Enough
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Death Distant Picnic Sound
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Breath Creation Death Initial
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Also Breakdown Death Enslavement
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Change Changing Death Life
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It is clear that the only language the zoo called Nigeria understands is war and death and we are ready for war

Zoo Nigeria Death War
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If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Die You Completely Happy
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Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

Being Between Capital Corporate
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

Atheists Criminals Death Either
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Death Great Interviews More
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Amount Caused Death Long
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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Always Bathroom Closest Death
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Both Certain Church Church And State
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death Even Life Life And Death
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I love women to death.

Love Woman
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Children Creatures Death I Love
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Could Dad Date Dates
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alone Beauty Come Death
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sunrise Death Even Great
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Belongs Death Famine Life
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I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Ropes Time Eye Death
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

About Any Art Beyond
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Afraid Appreciate Better Culture
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