Quotes About Death

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

If you have the power to resurrect the dead man, firstly, be sure that he is a good man!

Death from sin no power can separate.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self

Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.