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published by Hank Dunn - April 23rd, 2019
Life and Death as Metaphor

I am a collector of quotations about life and death. (BTW, I found a great source for these in an app called WeCroak.)

I was reading through my collection the other day and noticed many of the quotations contained metaphors for life and death. Here are a few of my favorites:

  • “Our lives are as bubbles in boiling water, which appear, rise to the surface, pop, and disappear.”  —Leo Tolstoy
  • “No matter how much you’ve been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now is the cry. Why so soon? It’s the cry of a child being called home at dusk.”  —Margaret Atwood
  • “Another way to get a sense of your life moving continuously towards death is to imagine being on a train, which is always traveling at a steady speed—it never slows down or stops, and there is no way that you can get off. This train is continuously bringing you closer and closer to its destination: the end of your life.”  —Sangye Khadro
  • “Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”  —W.H. Auden
  • “Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight. She helps us discover what matters most.”  —Frank Ostaseski
  • “Dying is a wild night and a new road.”  —Emily Dickinson

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