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Quotes About Death

We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset?
~ John Burdett
Lumpini Park at night: love at its cheapest, but the incidence of HIV is said to be over 60 per cent. In the darkness: furtive movement on benches and on the grass, muted moans and whispers, rustlings of large animals in heat, the intensity of the atomic fusion of sec and death (highly addictive, they say).
~ John Burdett
To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.
~ John Burdett
cómo clama la tierra por cada muerto mientras da manzanas, topos fugaces, minúsculos pájaros
~ John Burnside
couldn't find it in my heart to believe her death would result in a complete annihilation; I think I accepted her body's death from the beginning, but there was another part of me that believed her mind, or her spirit, or something else that could not be defined, would never really
~ John Burnside
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
~ John Bytheway
It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.
~ John Cale
Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)
~ John Cale
We are already dead but not yet in the ground. - Fear
~ John Cale
Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.
~ John Calvin
Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
~ John Calvin
Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.
~ John Calvin
God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such
~ John Calvin
This was why I published the Institutes — to defend against unjust slander my brothers whose death was precious in the Lord's sight. A
~ John Calvin
Let us know,   therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for   us but death.
~ John Calvin
For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.
~ John Calvin
Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.
~ John Calvin
The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death. The
~ John Calvin
Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.
~ John Calvin
8. I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not   only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may   blot out our transgressions, but also how he discharges the office of a   good Shepherd in protecting his flock.
~ John Calvin
The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence
~ John Calvin
The greatest victory of God took place when Christ, having overcome sin, conquered death, and put Satan to flight, was lifted up to heaven in majesty, that he might reign gloriously over the church. Therefore
~ John Calvin
God was pleased to indicate and typify both the gift of future and eternal felicity by terrestrial blessings, as well as the dreadful nature of spiritual death by bodily punishments, at that time when he delivered his covenant to the Israelites as under a kind of veil.
~ John Calvin
It is, indeed, true for pagans that the greatest blessing is not to be born, and the next, to die immediately.
~ John Calvin