Quotes About Death

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday.

Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind...

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

Bad theology kills

When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.

Respect me, or put me to death.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Respect Death and You Live In Life

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.