quotations about death
She had nut painted arms that were hers to keep
And in her fear she sought cracked pleasures
The passion of lovers is for death, said she
Licked her lips and turned to feather
BAUHAUS
"The Passion of Lovers"
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL
Night
With death comes honesty.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
No life that breathes with human breath
Has ever truly long'd for death.
ALFRED TENNYSON
The Two Voices
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
I don't like tombstones. They're like bookends to spent lives, trapping the person inside.
ELIZABETH DANIELS
"A Rose in the Willow Garden", Red Velvet and Absinthe
That which we call Death is but a pause of suspension; and in truth a progress to life, only our thoughts look downwards upon the body, and not upwards upon things to come.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine