Quotes About Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

baptism puts us in contact with the death of Christ (vv. 3–4); (2) because we share in Christ's death, we also will share in his resurrection (vv. 5, 8–10); (3) sharing in Christ's death means freedom from sin (vv. 6–7).

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

Because of his victory over the grave, Christ is now seated at the right hand of his Father, not for rest, but for rule. He is to reign from there until his enemies are made his footstool. Heaven must receive him, must hold him, until all is subdued in his name through the preaching of the gospel. Only then will he return, and destroy the last remaining enemy, which is death.

Everything in your life is a matter of choice. There are only two things we have no choice about. We cannot avoid these two things no matter how hard we try. The first is that we must die. Death is an absolute certainty, and the second thing we have no choice about is that we must live until we die. Now understand this - everything else in your life that you think you have to do, or are forced to do, is a choice

Every one likes to go to heaven. But how many would ready to die?

Death has no power to change moral qualities," he insisted in a Decoration Day speech in 1883. "Whatever else I may forget," the aging abolitionist declared, "I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery.

The constant threat of death was such a persistent companion, it almost felt like they should get it a horse.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

Unfortunately, it's not against the law in this country to drink yourself to death.

Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt; to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind; and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge.

I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

Strive to accomplish the supreme unchanging goal. For life is passing, and there is no certainty about the time of death. Even if you should die tomorrow, you should have confidence and be without regret.

Il n'y a finalement que les morts qui puissent nous envier. Et encore, j'en doute.

Mais surtout, nous éprouvions ce sentiment d'extrême liberté qui est l'apanage de ceux qui sont débarrassés de leur image et qui ont retire, du voisinage de la mort et de la cohabitation quotidienne avec la souffrance, cette distance avec ce qui rend l'homme si petit et si étriqué.

Lloyd There's really nothing to worry about Mary. Statistically they say you're more likely to get killed on the way to the airport. You know, like on a head on crash or flying off a cliff or getting trapped under a gas truck That's the worst I have this cousin, well y'know, I had this cousin...

There is not much mystery about death. It's being alive that's the mystery. Death is the normality, life is the exception.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!