Quotes About Death

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Tired of living and scared of dying.

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

Sometimes it's better to die happy and alone, than to wish your we're dead in a bad relationship.

If you think its your alarm clock that wakes you every morning, try putting it next to a corpse and understand the Grace of GOD!!!

This morning I woke up and watched the news and someone died last night and I thank God for waking me up it could of being me that died last night...

Cowards die many time before their death... the valiant never tastes of death but once...- Julius Caesar

Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.