Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: science death suffering desire madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Tags: memory death fondness funerals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: love regret death conversation waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt. . . . I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians — everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else? —David Dellinger More about this quote Tags: love God good death prison trying resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already. —Jennifer Echols in Going Too Far More about this quote Tags: life death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. —Rita Rudner More about this quote Tags: relationships death marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. —Laura Wiess in Leftovers More about this quote Tags: life indifference time death honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't forgive my friends for dying. I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: forgiveness death missing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jim Moore, founder of a famous New York restaurant, had many friends in the theatrical world. As he grew older, several of them died and were sorely missed by Moore. One Friday afternoon he made a pilgrimage to the graves of those departed friends, remonstrating with them for their thoughtlessness in dying. When he got to George M. Cohan's grave, he took out a parcel of fish and thumped it against the headstone. "In case you don't know," he shouted, "today's Friday, and I just want you to see what you're missing. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: friends death fish theatre Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. —Thomas Mann More about this quote Tags: love strength death immortality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. —English proverb More about this quote Tags: death eating moderation appetites Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. —Paul Eldridge More about this quote Tags: ideas death idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. —Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake More about this quote Tags: love soul pain death breathing savior Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. —Christian Nestell Bovee More about this quote Tags: soul death earth heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: freedom death universe old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email