Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

In greatness, life and death merge.

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

Death is Life's high meed.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

"Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled. He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."