Famous Quotes - Tags - Death

  • (1) Know the pinetrees. Know the orange dryness of sickness and death in needle and cone. Know... More
  • (and down went
    my Uncle
    Sol

    and started a worm farm) More
  • (What is a dead girl but a shadowy ghost
    Or a dead man’s voice but a distant and vain... More
  • . . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown!
    These bones, how they grind in... More
  • ... burned to tireless death
    A child of a few hours
    With its kneading mouth
    Charred... More
  • ... into that rushing beast of the night,
    sucked up by that great dragon, to split
    from... More
  • ... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
  • ... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service... More
  • ... the girls who came at dawn
    To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to... More
  • ... transform
    into our flesh our
    deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,
    living in... More
  • ...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours... More
  • ...let the dead bury their own dead. More
  • ...then he slept with his ancestors... More
  • ...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots... More
  • 1st Guard. Is this well done?
    Charmian. It is well done, and fitting for a... More
  • A bad end, a sad end, was the last end of Mieze. And why, why, why? What crime had she committed?... More
  • A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know.... More
  • A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
    Will he not let us alone,
    And think that there... More
  • A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk. More
  • A cry of bitter dead men who will never
    Attend a gentle maker of musical joy. More
  • A decent chap, a real good sort,
    Straight as a die, one of the best,
    A brick, a trump, a... More
  • A diff’rent cause, says Parson Sly,
    The same effect may give:
    Poor Lubin fears, that he... More
  • A drunkard is a dead man
    And all dead men are drunk. More
  • A dryness is upon the house
    My father loved and tended. More
  • A fig for
    The seal of fire,
    Death hairy-heeled, and the tapped ghost in wood,
    We make... More
  • A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies. More
  • A great world leader is gone. Liberty loving people around the globe are sad tonight. We are... More
  • A love that dies has never lived. More
  • A man can die but once, we owe God a death. More
  • A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. More
  • A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and... More
  • A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own. More
  • A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and... More
  • A poor life is better than a good death. More
  • A process in the weather of the world
    Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child
    Sits in... More
  • A rat crept softly through the vegetation
    Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
    While I... More
  • A simple child,
    That lightly draws its breath,
    And feels its life in every limb,
    What... More
  • Abba, dark death is the breaking of a glass.
    The dazzled flakes and splinters... More
  • Accept these costly wreaths for my own sake
    (Death asks no entrance fee to let you... More
  • According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept... More
  • Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. More
  • Adrift dissolving, bound for death;
    Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one—
    A lumbering... More
  • After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a... More
  • After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead. More
  • Ah God! that it were possible
    For one short hour to see
    The souls we loved, that they... More
  • Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
    Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt... More
  • Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day, jumping from... More
  • Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
    Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
    Out... More
  • Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
    Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul... More
  • Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
    And each separate dying ember wrought... More
  • Ah, why should all mankind
    For one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned,
    If... More
  • Ai! ai! we do worse! We are in a fix! And you’re out, Death let
    you out, Death had the... More
  • Alas, day, you brought light,
    You trailed splendour
    You showed us god:
    I salute you,... More
  • Alas,

    For the tireless heart within the little
    Lady with rod that made them... More
  • All considerations
    for these human remains!
    They must have an escort!
    They are... More
  • All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death. More
  • All earth was but one thought—and that was death,
    Immediate and inglorious; and the... More
  • All else is gone; from those great eyes
    The soul has fled:
    When faith is lost, when honor... More
  • All human things are subject to decay,
    And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. More
  • All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be... More
  • All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted... More
  • All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck
    And that should mother... More
  • All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the... More
  • All men think all men mortal, but themselves. More
  • All that people have they will give to save their lives. More
  • All that’s left to happen
    Is some deaths (my own included).
    Their order, and their... More
  • All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy,... More
  • All the heavy days are over;
    Leave the body’s coloured pride
    Underneath the grass and... More
  • All the hills and vales along
    Earth is bursting into song,
    And the singers are the... More
  • All this slowness, all this hardness,
    The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
    The gradual... More
  • All true enough: and true as well that she
    Was beautiful, and danced, and is now dead. More
  • All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind
    With whistler’s cough contages, time on... More
  • all
    Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. More
  • Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many... More
  • Also, I am tired of all the dead.
    They refuse to listen,
    so leave them alone.
    Take... More
  • Ambassador Puser the ambassador
    Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,
    What these... More
  • Ambition’s debt is paid. More
  • An important Jew who died in exile. More
  • And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish
    In that sweet sleep no power can ever... More
  • And all your deeds and words,
    Each truth, each lie,
    Die in unjudging love. More
  • And anyone is free to condemn me to death
    If he leaves it to nature to carry out the... More
  • And as she died so must we die ourselves,
    And thence ye may perceive the world’s a... More
  • And crossed the dark defile at last, and found
    At Roncevaux upon the darkening plain
    The... More
  • And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan.
    And He, picking a manner of worm, which half... More
  • And death i think is no parenthesis More
  • And death shall have no dominion.
    Dead men naked they shall be one
    With the man in the... More
  • And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. More
  • And die of nothing but a rage to live. More
  • And even you will come to this foul shame,
    This ultimate infection,
    Star of my eyes, my... More
  • And he thought to himself...., ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat,... More
  • And here the precious dust is layd;
    Whose purely temper’d Clay was made
    So fine, that... More
  • And I could see that child’s one eye
    Which seemed to laugh, and say with glee:
    ‘What... More
  • And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. More
  • And I may return
    If dissatisfied
    With what I learn
    From having died. More
  • And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
    That in the blinding light beyond the... More
  • And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still... More
  • And mighty poets in their misery dead. More
  • And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
    Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have... More
  • And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
    A wise... More
  • And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament,... More

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