Quotes About Death

El padre Blas Valera (cuzqueño) dice que cuando cantaban los gallos, los indios creían que lloraban por la muerte del inca, por lo cual llamaron al gallo hualpa.

Vivir era estarse muriendo y morir era empezar la vida, morir era empezar en serio y vivir era perder el tiempo

Cómo conciliar el sueño cuando lo mejor sería morirse.

I had three ribs stoved in once in Outremer, so I knew what was going on. I recognised the sound, and the particular sort of pain, and the not quite being able to breathe. Mostly I remember thinking: it won't hurt, because any moment now I'll be dead. Bizarrely reassuring, as if I was cheating, getting away with it. Cheating twice; once by staying alive, once by dying. This man is morally bankrupt.

When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place.

Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

Et sambulver in medi umbrae mortis, nn timb mala, quoniam t mcum es. (Psalms 22.4:

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

Melville died in New York on September 28, 1891, blissfully unaware that, in the years to come, so many people would leave the hyphen out of 'Moby-Dick.

God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, "the faithful witness [martys]" (1:5).

Rome rules by the power of violence, but the one who is the true King of kings and Lord of lords rules by virtue of his submission to death—precisely the opposite of armed violence against the empire. That is why he alone is worthy.

Jesus' death on the cross is not an accident or an injustice that befell him; it is, rather, an act of sacrifice freely offered for the sake of God's people.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb;Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room.

When asked what he wants for his tombstone epitaph ] Since I'm an atheist, and have no belief whatsoever in life after death, I couldn't care less -- it's not like it'll have any impact on me, since by definition I will be completely extinguished. I guess if someone twisted my arm and forced me to provide an epitaph, it would be 'Don't forget.' Sound advice...

When the slaughtered Lamb is seen `in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world.

You come hither to learn to die, I am not the only person that must go this way: I can assure you, that your whole life, be it ever so long, is little enough to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain deceitful world and the lusts of the flesh: Be sure you choose God for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never fear but we shall meet with comfort.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.