Quotes About Death

When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little: but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll.

Strew on her roses, roses,And never a spray of yew!In quiet she reposes;Ah, would that I did too!

Her cabined, ample spiritIt fluttered and failed for breath.Tonight it doth inheritThe vasty hall of death.

But we can note that, however the debates turn out with regard to any given claim concerning animal behavior, it is clear that facile attempts to maintain that all human beings are exclusively in possession of some particular trait or set of traits that nonhuman animals lack (language, self- consciousness, tool use, awareness of death, or some other capacity) are becoming ever less tenable.

Any influence that the journal might have had eroded further in the summer of 2017, after Trump's tin-eared and self-indulgent response to the death of a counterprotester at an alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Krein disavowed his support of the president. In the pages of the New York Times, he wrote, "Mr. Trump has betrayed the foundations of our common citizenship.

The soul dies like a star – by collapsing in on itself.

Silence abides. Nobody talks. Nobody can talk. No man knows his own mind. Fear prises the body and soul apart as neatly as a scallop knife – pop! He is no longer in control of himself. Someone or something else commands him: the war itself. He runs in expectation of death – any second, any second now – and then his soul will hang around like so much chaff until a stiff breeze disperses it and he will return to the source.

The wretchedness of the condition was perhaps best conveyed by the old saying that those suffering from seasickness believe they will die on the first day, are sure they will on the second, and hope they will on the third.

Sin is the death of the soul.

The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than of soldiers that they die on the bed of honour. Abel's death has not only no curse in it, but it has a crown in it;

The saints are a people near to God. Salvation is far from the wicked; but God is a help at hand to his people; and this is by the blood of Christ, by the merit of his sufferings and death.

When death comes into a family it ought to be improved.

As those who live and die unsanctified go out of the world with their hell about them, so those who are sanctified and renewed go out of the world with their heaven about them.

Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.

Así que un hombre puede llorar por el pecado, y sin embargo ser sólo un casi cristiano. Puede entristecerle pensar en la muerte que trae el pecado, pero no le entristece que el pecado lo contamina y lo pervierte.

Entonces, cuando los pecadores no tienen sentido de su condición espiritual, es claro que están muertos en pecado; las señales de la muerte eterna están sobre ellos.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Le tabac a provoqué 100 millions de morts au XXe siècle.

Pour celui qui a su extraire la quintessence de l'existence, la mort n'est pas une déchéance ultime, mais l'achèvement serein d'une vie bien vécue : une belle mort est l'aboutissement d'une belle vie.

Chaque instant de vie est précieux car la mort peut survenir à tout moment.

Buddhist texts say that in the cycle of death and rebirth, no place, not even one the size of a needle's point, is exempt from suffering.

I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.