Quotes by Death Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker inspirational-life believe death As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step. Alison Hawthorne Deming death fall thinking There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up. Allan Armitage growing-up dream death The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation. Alphonse Daudet clever death fall Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine pain sympathy death Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine. Alphonse de Lamartine light death fall If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr taken friendship death At some point, we all have to let go. Amanda Crew dying letting-go death Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. Amanda Palmer change time death Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce achievement success death Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. Ambrose Bierce dying religious death Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers. Ambrose Bierce differences suicide death IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. Ambrose Bierce body sitting death Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. Ambrose Bierce grief suicide death ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . Ambrose Bierce power life death MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. Ambrose Bierce lines death moving When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. Ambrose Bierce graves feet death Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Ambrose Bierce virtue dying death ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. Ambrose Bierce amusement kindness death SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Ambrose Bierce punishment political death «23456789101112»