Quotes About Death

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Death is the perfect knowing.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

The big change is the proximity to death.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.