Quotes About Death

There are a number of ways to die, Willi. One of them is a spiritual kind of murder. The body lives on, but the soul's gone out of it.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," he said solemnly. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.

Her beloved twin sister was dead - murdered!

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.

Levanté la vista y vi un caballo de color verde pálido.El jinete se llamaba Muerte y su compañero era la Tumba. APOCALIPSIS 6:8

Death began to look like a friend.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

Only fools and the dead are content.

A man's heart can die before a spear ever pierced him. - Bathsheba

The only hope I have is the salvation You've given me through Jesus. And the only way I can be with You is to die.

Dick turned around slowly. Did you expect her to be dead because I was tight ? His tone was pleasant. Nicole is now made of-of Georgia pine, which is the hardest wood known, except lignum vitae from New Zealand-

Redd laughed. The lovely thing about being here, she said, gesturing at the maze, is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with. --The Looking Glass Wars

The queen is head. Long live the queen...me. The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue lolling in his mouth, the picture of death. Get up! You still have seven more lives. The Cat's eyes fluttered open. Find Alyss and kill her. With a wave of her hand, the looking glass was once again whole. The Cate jumped through, in prosuit of the only living Heart besides Redd.

If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I'd be killed. An honorable death doesn't exist. Death is death. But it's funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it, she said. And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.