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Death Quotes by Hermann Hesse
- Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal…
- Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow…
- The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of…
- When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk…
- Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
- Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it…
- You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,…
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as…
- Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our…
- I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of…
- For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible…
- Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to…
- So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves…
- I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
- The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it as one of…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden