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Quotes About Death

My mother buried three husbands...and two of them were only napping.
~ Rita Rudner
They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.
~ Roald Dahl
I saw how the Bible isn't a book about how to get into heaven, it's a library of poems and letters and stories about bringing heaven to earth now, about this world becoming more and more the place it should be. There is very, very little in the Bible about what happens when you die. That's not what the writers were focused on. Their interest, again and again, is on how this world is arranged.
~ Rob Bell
He's alive in death, but in profound torment, because he's living with the realities of not properly dying the kind of death that actually leads a person into the only kind of life that's worth living.
~ Rob Bell
This death-and-life mystery, this mechanism, this process is built into the very fabric of creation. The cells in our bodies are dying at a rate of millions a second, only to be replaced at a similar rate of millions a second. Our skin is constantly flaking off and our body is continually replacing the skin cells with new ones; we have entirely new skin every week or so.
~ Rob Bell
What's it like? Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.
~ Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black dessert under the endless night. THE END.
~ Rob Wilkins
They repeated the trick on Love, Death and the Lady (1970).
~ Rob Young
The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
contrary to some opinions, it is better to be a dead hero than a live louse. Dying is messy and inconvenient but even a louse dies someday no matter what he will do to stay alive and he is forever having to explain his choice.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.' 'Whose family?' 'A death in yours, if you insist.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You can die anyplace. They've never managed to regulate that.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Unexpected discorporation was always rare on Mars; Martian taste in such matters called for life to be a rounded whole, with physical death taking place at the appropriate and selected instant. This artist, however, had become so preoccupied with his work that he had forgotten to come in out of the cold; by the time his absence was noticed his body was hardly fit to eat. He himself had not noticed his own discorporation and had gone right on composing his sequence.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Don't bawl over Ben—not in my presence. The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death . . . and that we are all in for—if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
All men must die, it was their single common heritage. But a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
However, you are just as dead if you buy a farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
from the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which overcrowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. Plague is a nasty death but a quick one. Starvation also is a nasty death…but a very slow one.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It's a nasty story. I got that much before my informant sobered up. Dr. Ward Smith delivered his wife by Caesarean section—and she died on the table. What he did next shows that he knew the score; with the same scalpel he cut Captain Brant's throat—then his own. Sorry, hon." Jill
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Seems a funny way to run things. But of course I've never paid taxes." "You just think you haven't. You started the day you were born. We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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~ Robert A. Heinlein
For death holds no mention of You. In Sheol who can acclaim You? -Psalm 6:6
~ Robert Alter