Quotes About Comforting Death

#1. I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film. - Author: Catherine Deneuve

#2. I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. - Author: Jim Butcher

#3. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. - Author: Angelina Jolie

#4. I'm so sorry. I read of it only yesterday. Otherwise, I would have come sooner.' And what good that reassurance was, he had no idea. I would not have come if her were alive, but I would have come at the very moment of his death, had I known of it. Yes, that must be very comforting to her. - Author: Meredith Duran

#5. [H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture - and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death. - Author: Paul Kalanithi

#6. I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am. - Author: David Oakes

#7. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#8. Life may be scary
But it's only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment - Author: Quentin S. Crisp

#9. You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture of images. People are used to seeing stories that way. They understand looking at pictures. - Author: Marjane Satrapi

#10. Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes. - Author: Mojib Latif

#11. Teatime put a comforting arm around his shoulders. "Don't worry," he said. "I'm on your side. A violent death is the last thing that'll happen to you. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#12. The more clearly we can see the walls of our life, the better. Even if it's only a psychological boundary, even if, deep down, we know that death will still enter without asking, it's comforting to pretend that we have everything under control. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#13. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say. - Author: Adam Silvera

#14. The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do? - Author: Parker J. Palmer

#16. I think about the sound the waves made against the walls of the lifeboat. A hushing sort of whisper that I'd eventually found comforting.
It had become, for me, the reckoning of death. - Author: Carrie Ryan

#17. Let us sleep, he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#18. at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had a crusader stick a sword in his or her chest. - Author: P.Z. Myers

#19. Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death. - Author: Regina Brett

#20. Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind. - Author: Rin Chupeco

#21. No one'll see us coming," Han said. "And everyone dies sometime."
"Not comforting."
"The alternative is we go spend a bunch of time waiting for you to come up with some other plan that doesn't work. - Author: James S.A. Corey

#22. Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means ... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. - Author: Cecil Beaton