Quotes About Death

The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk of rehabilitation, of cure, of someday sending these people out into the world again. No one had spoken of hope. The feeling was of living death-or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day.

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other—child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death.

O universo explodia, cada partícula distante da outra, lançando-nos violentamente para o espaço escuro e solitário, eternamente nos separando um do outro – criança para fora do útero, amigo longe de amigo, mudando-se para lugares distantes, cada um com seu próprio caminho rumo à caixa de recompensas da morte solitária.

A sensação era de viver a morte - ou pior, de nunca ter estado realmente vivo e consciente. Almas murchavam desde o início e estavam condenadas a encarar o tempo e o espaço do cotidiano.

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So

There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no death, there is the Force.

There were so many dead their spirits could no longer be contained in the darkness, and, like deer, their population had spilled over into parts of the town reserved for the living.

Preceptos del Código Jedi: No hay emoción; hay paz. No hay ignorancia; hay conocimiento. No hay pasión; hay serenidad. No hay caos; hay armonía. No hay muerte; está la Fuerza.

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

The dead once lived but the living have not yet died...

The Americans even exacted their revenge for Pearl Harbor in April 1943, when cryptanalysts learned that Admiral Yamamoto, who had planned the deadly attack, was due to make a visit to the island of Bougainville, near New Guinea. American fighters, waiting in ambush, came out of the clouds and sent the admiral down in flames to his death in the jungle below.

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.

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

"Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone."

"When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge."

Drunken life, dreamy death.