sad quotes about death

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. ~Author Unknown



There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo



One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ~Georg Groddeck, The Book of the It, 1923



Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Anonymous



Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. ~Jean Jaures



If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. ~Oliver Herford



Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison



Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer, October 2010



The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1925



One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave... ~Dita Von Teese



I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. ~Jack Tatum



If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb



Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda



Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. ~Joseph Farrell



We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld



I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known. ~Author Unknown



Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. ~Albert Smith (clouds)