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Quotes About Death

and immediately hoped he wouldn't regret it. Mordechai's death
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
What happens then? The hypnotism is dissipated and you are living a spiritual life, a God life. God was doing its job all the time. God was always manifesting its spiritual perfection as you, but only by seeing through a glass darkly did you see yourself in sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Civilians and pop-culture psychologists talk as though achieving bravery is the end of the journey. It's not, it's the beginning. And after learning bravery, you must learn to deal with pain. Because after true bravery, there's always pain." Lisbeth's smile turned sad. "Unless you die." Trace nodded. "Yes. Unless you die. Bravery is dangerous. Cowards live longer.
~ Joel Shepherd
Look at that house, so quiet and willing. If there is a good way to die, that's it out there. Graceful and calm in the face of inevitability. It feels generous, almost. Beauty and reassurances are not for ourselves. Of course death will come. And of course there is no good way to die. There is no peace. A weight will not lift. A leaf will not fall. But we can pretend.
~ Joey Comeau
I don't want to die alone, which I guess means I don't want to die.
~ Joey Comeau
You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.
~ Joey Comeau
We can see the mushroom cloud and we are going to die soon, no matter what we do or eat or say. I wish I had known this all along.
~ Joey Comeau
I love my puppy. I love that he is so young and full of life, and that he will still die first.
~ Joey Comeau
The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.
~ Joey Lott
Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.
~ Joey W. Hill
I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it.
~ Joey W. Hill
We're all going to die, love. I don't know anyone who's gotten out of this life alive
~ Joey W. Hill
The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.
~ Johan Galtung
This showed that loneliness isn't just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It's a product of the way we live now.
~ Johann Hari
Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
~ Johann von Goethe
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If ever I to the moment shall say: Beautiful moment, do not pass away! Then you may forge your chains to bind me, Then I will put my life behind me, Then let them hear my death-knell toll, Then from your labours you'll be free, The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall, And time come to an end for me!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God knows, I often lie down to sleep with the desire, even sometimes the hope, not to wake up again.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe