Quotes About Death

Death is a monster which drives an attentive spectator from the great theater before the play in which he is infinitely interested is over. This alone is reason enough to hate it.

Death is a monster that chases the rapt spectator from the theater before the play he is watching with infinite interest has ended.

lord, if my enemy kills me, I am damned; so save me from death

I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it. If we prefer honour to life, it is because life is blighted by infamy; and if, in the alternative, man sometimes throws away his life, philosophy must remain silent. Oh,

Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply interests him, and this is reason enough to hate it. All

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Fate gave birth at one and the same time to two siblings, Love and Death.

E tu, cui già dal cominciar degli anni sempre onorata invoco, bella Morte, pietosa tu sola al mondo dei terreni affanni[…] chiudi alla luce omai questi occhi tristi […] nel mio sangue innocente non ricolmar di lode, non benedir, com'usa per antica viltà l'umana gente

Man is born by labor, [40] and birth itself means risking death.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires, along with desire's rewards.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying was hers.

Stand as far away from me as you can And ask me why Hang on to your rosary beads Close your eyes to watch me die You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it God, but did you ever try To turn your sick soul inside out So that the world So that the world Can watch you die

AMOUR AMER A MARRE A MORT

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me;

Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree; Be the green grass above me With showers and dew drops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale

He lifted his head and said, 'Many waters cannot quench love. Neither can the floods drown it. It's stronger than death, Serafina. Stronger than anything.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.

Tu t'efforces d'alimenter la passion charnelle et ruses pour grappiller quelque argent, alors que tu oublies l'obscurité qui t'entourera dans ton tombeau et ne songes pas à ce qui t'adviendra ensuite.

la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.

This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, all threatening the incipient life.

With people dying outside on the streets of Dushanbe, studying marriage rituals did sound exotic—if not irrelevant.

Death is the only true ending. Everything else falls, to varying degrees, along a continuum of choice.