Quotes About Death

Un po' di pioggia non ha mai fatto male a nessuno, disse Mario. La pioggia fa male a tutti, disse Carlos. Può anche uccidere. Ne aveva già uccisi molti.

Epicurus said something similar when he wrote, "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

There are many ways to lose your relatives, I thought; war is only one of them.

were to die, even if one's brother or darling son should be killed before one's eyes. The drug is called nepenthê, which means "no grief," the penthê in nepenthê deriving from the noun penthos, "grief." It is, indeed, a word formed much the same way that anodyne, "without pain," the word that points to the origins

Says Saraha: By means of that same essence by which one is born, lives and dies, By means of that one gains the highest bliss.

Nootropic drugs can be important weapons in the battle against premature degeneration,senility, and death.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

BLOOD NEVER SLEEPS.

He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death - Corsican proverb

His Holiness carried the burden of the whole Church on his shoulders - answered Albanese - but in his death he was as light as a feather.

Que un hijo muera antes que su padre. Revierte el orden natural de las cosas. —Arrojó su cigarrillo al fuego—. Uno no puede llorar como es debido.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things . One can't grieve properly. One can only think of vengeance. - Ari Shamron I

There's something about death that gets our attention. When it's close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to our most basic understanding of things. Back to our presuppositions you might say. Death requires of us an explanation. Some invoke the periodic table, some the human condition, and some go back to church—at least for a while.

The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.

So much death and no coffee to be had.

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.

In a strange way, death is actually one of the steps of the code. It isn't listed in the algorithm, of course, but it's there. The first step. Everyone knows it, but no one will say it. Even though the patient has already died from the devastation of disease, the code presses on until someone "calls it." Then, and only then, can death be acknowledged. It is a wrenching combination of human grief and quotidian bureaucracy.

In all cases, life had already ceased for the patient. In fact, life had ceased before the code started. That was the time when the patient had stopped breathing or the heart had stopped beating. That was when the patient had really died. Yet we officially record the time of death as the moment when we adjourn our battle, not the moment the cells have adjourned theirs.

Istoriju pišu pobednici. Predanja ispreda puk. Književnici fantaziraju. Izvesna je samo smrt.

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.

History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain. "To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131

Dani teku kao reka vremena, ka uš?u, ka smrti.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.