Quotes About Death

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

~Seasons of Life~When the sunburn I blind, When the sky showers I cover, When the wind blows I blanket, When the death calls I undergo, When would I experience the nature?

Peace is possible for dead bodies, living bodies can not expect peace on the way to the victory.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin's power over me has been broken, in Jesus' name!

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

The only way to beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.