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Death Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
- If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health…
- It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought…
- To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
- Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease…
- The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
- I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one…
- The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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