Quotes About Death

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

faith is an initial and ongoing participation in the faith (i.e., faithful death) of Jesus.

It is the vision of a slaughtered Lamb, not a ferocious Lion. "The shock of this reversal," writes Richard Hays, "discloses the central mystery of the Apocalypse: God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, 'the faithful witness [martys]

By juxtaposing the two contrasting images, John has forged a new symbol of conquest by sacrificial death.

Baptism is a symbolic narrative not only of incorporation into Christ but also of ongoing life in Christ. Although a once-for-all death to sin occurs in baptism, as Christ died only once, this death must be constantly reactualized.

However well you do in the competition for the greatest toys, longest life, and healthiest brain, the best medical research indicates that eventually you're going to be dead. And you're going to stay dead for many years longer than you were alive, and all that will be left of you is people's memories of you, which is to say, your reputation.

Look at his grandiose mockery of Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, as he sat down with the most straight-faced generals he could find, to take a picture in a so-called «situation room» as they faked the monitoring of the death of Baghdadi somewhere he couldn't be, exactly like his criminal predecessors

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Good-bye—if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. —AMBROSE BIERCE

Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long.We do not die.We pass on.Pass on the life burning through our throats.When you leave me, I will not cry for you.I will run into the strongest wind I can find and welcome you home.

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

Is she dead?" called Zenda. Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death.

And so the Hopi came to accept that the price of living was that they must always be in the presence of death, and thus wasted none of their precious time in the sun worrying about something that was every bit as much a part of their lives as the air they breathed." "I

It was only a matter of time before we started dying.

Oh, law! This morning I look one day older than God and a year younger than water! Last night I didn't close my eyes. At five o'clock this morning I was still awake in my bed, turning and tossing and thinking about Big D." "Dallas?" "Dying, precious—Big D is death.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us.

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

Franklin had been born on January 17, 1706. In inimitable Philadelphia fashion, the city launched its celebration on April 17, the anniversary of his death.

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

I'd been everything but ordinary and I wanted to know what that felt like before they dump me into the grave.

Despite their many activities, these departed souls are still able to reach us if called upon. Occasionally, a disturbed spirit does not want to leave the Earth after physical death. This is due to some unresolved problem which has had a severe impact on its consciousness. In these abnormal cases, help is available from higher, caring entities who can assist in the

I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.