Quotes on death...
Death should not be seen as
the end but as a very
effective way to cut down expenses.
~ ~ Woody Allen
What the caterpillar
calls the end of the
world, the master calls a butterfly.
~ ~ Richard Bach
If it’s natural to kill why do
men have to
go into training to learn how?
~ ~ Joan Baez
To every thing there is
a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven;
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck that which is planted.
~ ~ Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou art
with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort
me.
~ ~ Bible Psalms 23:4
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues
acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
~ ~ Ambrose Bierce "The Devil’s Dictionary"
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope
of the Resurrection into eternal life . . . .
~ ~ Book of Common Prayer "The Burial of the Dead" (1662)
Men talk of killing time,
while time quietly kills them.
~ ~ Dion Boucicault
Every time I think that
I'm getting old, and
gradually going to the grave, something else
happens.
~ ~ Lillian Carter
Since the day of my birth, my
death began its walk. It
is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~ ~ Jean Cocteau
Suicide sometimes
proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for
cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are
afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
~ ~ Charles Caleb Colton "The Lacon" (1829)
Men create war to compete
with women, who create life.
~ ~ Sharon Doubiago
Millions long for immortality
who do not know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ ~ Susan Ertz "Anger in the Sky" (1943)
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death
a fulfillment.
~ ~ Dag Hammarskjold
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human
right.
~ ~ Orrin Hatch
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are
made for life.
~ ~ Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976