Death Quote by George Santayana — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“With you a part of me hath passed away;”

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.”

“There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.”

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment.”

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

“And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-”