Quotes About Death

I see no end to my misery but the grave.

en conciencia, es más fácil el morir que el soportar con valor y firmeza una vida llena de amarguras y padecimientos.

It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude.

The God, above my powers enthroned, He cannot change external forces. So, by the burden of my days oppressed, Death is desired, and Life a thing unblest!

eu acho tão espantoso que se chame de covarde ou de desgraçado àquele que se priva da vida, como acharia impertinente chamar de covarde ao que sucumbe a uma febre maligna.

And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.

One who has passed the thirtieth year already is as good as dead-- it would be best to kill you off by then.

Ach! Er ist tot! Wie dauert er mich! Wie bin ich bekümmert!

Der Tod ist nur ein Trick der Natur, um viel Leben zu haben.

As long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.

Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

Die Natur Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

Život je naljepši pronalazak prirode, a smrt njena vještina, da što bolje iskoristimo život.

you are certainly wrong when you classify suicide—and suicide is what we are talking about—as any sort of great achievement, since it can be defined only as a sign of weakness. For it is certainly easier to die than to stand up to a life of torment.

It was Papa," Marian interrupted quietly, glancing up at her aunt. "He looked directly at me,not a foot away from me.It was Papa." Kathleen sighed. "Well,I can't say I'm delighted to hear it.The best thing Mortimer ever did for you gals was to die. So he couldn't even do that right?

Of course, I am a heretic. The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose. Its root stems from the Greek word hairein, to take. Faced with the mystery of life and death, each act of faith is a gamble. We all risk choices before the unknown. -Forrest Church

To him the Bible was written not by God, but by inspired people, drawing from both history and experience, who sought to understand better the larger meaning of life and death.

Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant "invisible world" or "the land of the dead.

My experience as an Episcopal priest led me to believe that I would never want to suffer the way I saw so many people die: in isolation, abandoned and with great existential suffering. I would never want to be in an intensive care unit, hooked up to all kinds of machines.

First, take a deep breath. Assume Shakespeare's account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped "You too, Brutus" before breathing his last. What are the chances you just inhaled a molecule which Caesar exhaled in his dying breath? The surprising answer is that, with probability better than 99 percent, you did just inhale such a molecule.

I think life has to get bigger to make death seem smaller.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead. From the minute we discover it with eyes closed Advancing into mountain light. Ouch.