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Quotes About Death

Christians have assumed that virtually the only point in Jesus's death was "to save us from our sins," understood in a variety of more or less helpful ways. But for the gospels themselves, that rescue of individuals (which of course remains a central element) is designed to serve a larger purpose: God's purpose, the purpose of God's kingdom.
~ Unknown
And what if Israel's God had done in person, in the person of this man, what he said he would do, defeating death itself and launching his new creation?
~ Unknown
God's intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls leave behind their mortal bodies, then death still rules—since that is a description not of the defeat of death but simply of death itself, seen from one angle.4 But
~ Unknown
The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.
~ Nadezhda Mandelstam
Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?
~ Nadine Gordimer
I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.
~ Nadine Gordimer
I don't want to lose my memories. Don't make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.
~ Nalini Singh
If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.
~ Nalini Singh
Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
~ Nalini Singh
To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?
~ Nalini Singh
If you die, Lily ... I'll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so you can never escape.
~ Nalini Singh
Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat.
~ Nalini Singh
Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.
~ Nalini Singh
Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)
~ Nalini Singh
If this is death, Guild Hunter, then I will see you on the other side." He'd said that to her as she lay dying in his arms. Now, she whispered, "Wherever you go, I'll follow." She'd lost too many people she loved, survived too much death.
~ Nalini Singh
Bu ölümse Lonca Avc?s? o zaman seninle öteki tarafta görüÅŸeceÄŸiz. sy.432
~ Nalini Singh
Estás jugando con arcángeles. Una «ligera ventaja» supone una gran mejora en comparación con una «muerte segura».
~ Nalini Singh
Aodhan was the one who answered, voice quiet but words potent. "If Raphael were to perish, the Seven divided, would we not come together should we have a chance to avenge his death?
~ Nalini Singh
Then there was Lijuan. The Archangel of China had a nasty habit of coming back from the dead.
~ Nalini Singh
En ese caso, ella te matará a ti. Te convertirá en mortal.
~ Nalini Singh
Si esto es la muerte, cazadora - le dijo a su mortal mientras el fuego de ángel se abría camino desde sus huesos hasta su corazón - te veré al otro lado.
~ Nalini Singh
Do you truly feel nothing?" she whispered. "Are you without fractures?" "It's better this way." His eyes kissed her with frost. "The day I feel is the day I die.
~ Nalini Singh
My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death.
~ Nalini Singh