Cautious Quote by Tim Lebbon

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of…

— Marcus Aurelius

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but…

— Thomas Merton

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that…

— Eliot Ness

“The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly…

— Dolores Cannon

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

— Anonymous

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the…

— Marcus Aurelius

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

— Siobhan Dowd

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Why does the threat of violent death alter some of us, even if subtly, forever? Why does it make us unusually numb or calm…

— Jessica Stern

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other…

— Hugh Elliot