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Dying 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…
- All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
- 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…
- Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not…
- At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that…
- 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…
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- 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
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter