Quotes About Death

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

la satisfacción del deseo implica también la muerte del deseo.

Los hombres dicen que el tiempo pasa....el tiempo dice que los hombres mueren

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

The root of all sin goes back to the garden of Eden. The result of Adam and Eve's disobedience was exile for them and all their descendants after them. Living in exile means living in a perpetual state of disconnection and separation that ultimately leads to death if not remedied. There are four aspects to exile: spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical.

For the first time, she felt proud to lay claim to her gender. Perhaps men had life easier. But they would never know this. They would never walk the shadow lands of pain and death to be part of the miracle of life.

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Many people are just waking to the reality that unlimited expansion, what we call progress, is not possible in this world, and maybe looking to monks (who seek to live within limitations) as well as rural Dakotans (whose limitations are forced upon them by isolation and a harsh climate) can teach us how to live more realistically. These unlikely people might also help us overcome the pathological fear of death and the inability to deal with sickness and old age that plague American society.

Not this or that But all is amiss, That I have done, And I have seen Sin and sorrow Befoul the world - Release me, death, Forgive, remove From place and time The trace of all That I have been.

Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh By

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

I don't need to rest in this life. I can rest when I die. Then nobody's going to bother me.

Hayley was being nice. And had made a successful metaphor. Death was surely near.

It's not Life that begans at forty, it's Death - Victoria

Same green walls. Same table. Same roster of death due to malice, melancholy, folly or fate. Morin did the honours. A dealer, held and punched by two rivals, dropped to the sidewalk and never got up. Probable homicide by rotation and hyperextension of the head. A man noosed his neck to a tree and hit the gas in his pickup. Probably suicide by self-decapitation. A meth addict slept naked on his balcony and froze to death. Probably accident by supreme stupidity.

Violent death allows no privacy. It plunders one's dignity as surely as it has taken one's life.

Someone had collected shards of bone and brain pudding and sealed them in a Ziploc bag. The plastic sack lay in the man's lap, as though he'd been put in charge of watching over his own brain.