Quotes About Death

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Above all, he was posing the question that has vexed philosophers for centuries: Knowing that we are going to die, how are we to live?

The angel of death had cruised him. Death, that hustler, that last lover.

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The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.

It was the advent, or more specifically, the empty tomb which is the next great event. Even though prophesied thousands of years in advance, the idea of a suffering Messiah was more than the world was ready for, and it confounded the leaders of that time, both Jewish and Roman, that the "bruising of the heel" was the death of the Messiah. A resurrected Christ, defying death, changed the world forever.

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Death is a portal into that greater reality that can already be glimpsed in this world as an imaginative experience of the Otherworld.

Death is not the opposite of life but of birth - life is a continuous realm out of which we are born; that (as Plato says) we can dimly remember during our existence; and to which we return when we die - to that totality of life compared to which mortal existence seems but a dreamlike fragment.

Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Cho tôi t? do hay ?? tôi ch?t.

but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

death is the enemy; indeed, it is the "last enemy," says 1 Corinthians 15:26. When the psalmist, then, prays for deliverance from death, he is talking about a great deal more than a physical phenomenon. Death is the "last enemy," the physical symbol of our sinful alienation from God: "For in death there is no memory of You; in the grave, who will give You thanks?" Sin

The new hedonism seems unable to give people a reason to go on living. Its earliest fruits appear to be poisonous. Will this new "liberating" culture that our young have so enthusiastically embraced prove the deadliest carcinogen of them all? And if the West is in the grip of a "culture of death," as the pope contends and the statistics seem to show, is Western civilization about to follow Lenin's empire to the same inglorious end?

The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood. Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or dead. Breakfast was dying. And I was caring about it all. Meanwhile, that blasted Gunnar did nothing but sit and stare at his teevee all day. He was the reason we were all here, the reason we were suffering and dying, and he barely noticed us. I hissed so hard it hurt.

Death was in the atmosphere. Only the yellow weeds in the meadow were excited by living.

Leb, waiss nit wie lang, Und stürb, waiss nit wann Muess fahren, waiss nit wohin Mich wundert, das ich so frelich bin.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me. To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him." "No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ..." "Why?" "She often told me she was frightened of getting old...

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.