Quotes About Death

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.