quotes and sayings about death

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. ~Michel de Montaigne



During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown



Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin



Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe



Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. ~Author Unknown



What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell



The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy



The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. ~Author Unknown



Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois



He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller



Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)



The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958



If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom



I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. ~D.H. Lawrence



The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. ~Robert Morley, 1965