Quotes About Death

If you die and go to Hell the Braves fan said, you have to change places in Atlanta.

Ölümün ölümcüllüÄŸü yaln?zca adaleti deÄŸil, gerçeklendirmeyi de imkans?z k?lar.

This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.

Para volver a nacer, antes tienes que morir.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

I'm too young to die. The fallacy of youth. Death had never cared about the ages of those it claimed.

In death as in life he would be full of unspoken words and they would be his Hell, tormenting him through all eternity.

People didn't like [my persistent existence]. Because I should have died. Now that I've almost died, everybody loves me. . . . That was my mistake, back then. Not only did I live but I tried to live well. Bad mistake. Get fifteen stab wounds, much better.

While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.

The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death

What one believes happens after death dictates much of what one believes about life, and this is why faith-based religion, in presuming to fill in the blanks in our knowledge of the hereafter, does such heavy lifting for those who fall under its power. A single proposition – you will not die – once believed, determines a response to life that would be otherwise unthinkable.

If being prepared for death entails knowing when and where it will happen, the odds are you will not be prepared. Not only are you bound to die and leave this world; you are bound to leave it in such a precipitate fashion that the present significance of anything ? your relationships, your plans for the future, your hobbies, your possessions ? will appear to have been totally illusory.

If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life.

While sitting alone in his uncle's study, Ramana suddenly became paralyzed by a fear of death. He lay down on the floor, convinced that he would soon die, but rather than remaining terrified, he decided to locate the self that was about to disappear. He focused on the feeling of "I"—a process he later called "self-inquiry"—and found it to be absent from the field of consciousness.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

Complete freedom from stress is death

They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.