Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ”

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern. ”

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff. ”

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. ”

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ”

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. ”

Radio is the death and life of Africa. ”

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. ”

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. ”

Death is the most blessed dream. ”