Quotes About Death

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hour-glass--all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

looking at man in upside-down fashion, it [56] has been possible for us to ask whether he has a Spirit, whether he survives death, whereas really the question that we might very well ask is: "Why has this immortal Bird of Heaven plunged down into the ocean of matter, into mortal life?" Thus

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

In my student bathroom, I had given birth to both life and death.

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

Réveil blême dans la nuit. Effort pour éviter de penser à lui, en vain. Désir immédiat de passer un test de détection du sida. Comme un désir de mort et d'amour, « il m'aurait au moins laissé cela

En mi diario aparece escrito el 19 de enero: «Pequeños dolores. No sé cuánto tiempo va a necesitar el embrión para morir y ser expulsado. Un clarín toca La Marsellesa, se oyen risas en la planta de arriba. Así es la vida».

Nous avions été unies par une déréliction simplement décalée dans le temps. Et cet après-midi-là, j'avais dû mon courage de vivre à la chanson d'une femme qui, plus tard, se perdrait jusqu'à en mourir.

Larmes, silence et dignité, tel est le comportement qu'on doit avoir à la mort d'un proche, dans une vision distinguée du monde.

L'escalier qui monte de la cuisine aux chambres s'est révélé trop étroit pour le passage du cercueil.

Mon mari est arrivé le soir, bronzé, gêné par un deuil qui n'était pas le sien. Plus que jamais, il a paru déplacé ici. On a dormi dans le seul lit à deux places, celui où mon père était mort.

S. est né le 6 avril 53. Ma mère est morte le 7 avril. Eric a été conçu le 2 avril. À nouveau désir de le voir. Pourtant, cela se résume à ceci : il baise, il boit de la vodka, il parle de Staline.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death

It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.

[Salutation by gladiators:] Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death 'health' program.

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.