Quotes About Death

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

It is better to die in hope than live in despair.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.