Quotes About Death

I'm told that when Auden died, they found his Oxford all but clawed to pieces. That is the way a poet and his dictionary should come out.

De qué sirve presumir, rosal, de buen parecer, si aun no acabas de nacer cuando empiezas a morir?

Qué raro que se muera alguien en vendimia. Siempre la gente lo deja para después.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

a feeling that blowing off his father's head was the natural and logical way of discovering the contents of the will in which he was mildly interested, a strange indifference to the money that might result—

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

The Pleistocene period ended in death. This was no ordinary extinction of a vague geological period which fizzled to an uncertain end. This death was catastrophic and all-inclusive... The large animals that had given the name to the period became extinct. Their death marked the end of the era. But how did they die? What caused the extinction of forty million animals?

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

Oh say can you see Alma. The darling of Them. All her friends were artists. They alone have memories. They alone love flowers. They alone give parties and die. Poor Alma. They alone. She died, and it was as if all the jewels in the world had heaved a sigh. The seismograph at Fordham university registered, for once, a spiritual note. How like a sliver in her own short fat muscular foot. She loved the Western World, though there are some who say she isn't really dead.

To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!

Officially, John Paul I was found dead, sitting upright in his bed, on the morning of September 28, 1978. It was the 33rd day of his papacy. It was reported by the Vatican that Pope John Paul I, a 65 year old healthy man, had died of natural causes, more precisely a heart attack. Who found the

War is young men dying and old men talking

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

Death had no lips, but it was smiling.

It seems safe to say that apes know about death, such as that is different from life and permanent. The same may apply to a few other animals, such as elephants, which pick up ivory or bones of a dead herd member, holding the pieces in their trunks and passing them around. Some pachyderms return for years to the spot where a relative died, only to touch and inspect the relics. Do they miss each other? Do they recall how he or she was during life?

En origen, un velatorio era un período en el que los dolientes se mantenían en velo junto a una persona muerta en su casa. Es muy probable que los velatorios empezaran a practicarse con la esperanza de que la persona amada volviera a la vida, o para tener la certeza absoluta de que estaba muerta antes del entierro.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.