Quotes about Reflection
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
— Andrew Jackson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
— CS Lewis
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
— Alain de Botton
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
— Ernest Hemingway
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
— Paulo Coelho
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— Thomas Watson
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
— Paulo Coelho
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
— Samuel Johnson
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
— William Wordsworth
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
— George Eliot
I have only one curiosity left: death.
— Coco Chanel