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Quotes About Peace

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
~ Pablo Neruda
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
~ Theodore Bikel
To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.
~ Saib Tabrizi
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
~ Clarice Lispector
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is an eternal sleep.
~ Unknown
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
~ Jean Paul
When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
~ Dana Gould
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
~ David Berg
Rest is for the dead.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.
~ John Fletcher
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
~ Victor Hugo
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
~ Isaiah
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
~ William Wordsworth
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
~ Thomas Gray
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
~ William Osler
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
~ Pope John XXIII
Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
~ Lucian
Violence and war lead only to death.
~ Pope Francis
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu