Quotes About Death

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

You'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and sell his body for soap.

opened the front door with my left hand, my gun cocked in my right. A little man leaned toward me, peering into the fog with intent dead eyes. I caught him before he fell out. I'd been feeling death in my bones for twenty-four hours.

Los muertos no hacen daño. Los vivos son quienes nos lastiman.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

A man's life, from birth to death, is guided, affected, and colored by family relations. The basic unit of the social order is the family. The family is the socially stable unit where the family has liberty and property.

Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety. "No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.

Es que no hay forma de decir en voz alta que se puede odiar a alguien por morirse, como yo la odio a ella

the love of God is the kind of love that identifies with the powerless; the kind of love that appeals to nothing but its own integrity, that doesn't seek to force or batter its way through. It lives, it survives, it 'wins' simply by being itself. On the cross, God's love just is what it is and it's valid and world-changing and earth-shattering, even though at that moment what it means in the world's terms is failure, terror and death.

The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences

Consider living to be a great adventure. Be interested in the possibilities of learning, doing, and accomplishing. Enthusiasm is evidence of your appreciation for life and living. Apathy and disinterest indicate an inclination toward death.

Priests believed cats to be holy animals, which were mummified in their death and presented to Bastet as offering.

Bajo el cielo, resignadas, reposan las aguas melancólicas. Las torres y las sombras se confunden de tal modo que todo parece suspendido en el aire, mientras que desde una torre orgullosa, la Muerte como un espectro gigante, contempla la ciudad que yace a sus pies.

A ideia de que a medicina é uma luta contra a morte está errada. A medicina é uma luta pela vida boa, da qual a morte faz parte.

A morte exige brevidade de palavras, porque o tempo é curto. E, sendo curto o tempo, as palavras devem dizer o essencial.

a dor pode ser tão forte que as pessoas chegam a imaginar que viver com dor tamanha não vale a pena. É melhor morrer. Na morte não se sente dor.

Doce morrer no mar? Talvez. Melhor morrer no mistério indecifrável do mar que morrer as mortes banais da terra seca.

Há também as dores da alma que nenhuma cirurgia consegue curar. O medo, por exemplo, não pode ser amputado. Pena. Porque o medo paralisa a vida. Dominada pelo medo, a vida se encolhe, perde a capacidade de lutar, entrega-se à morte.

a pessoa que está ali é mais que um corpo. É um ser humano. Está com medo. Medo da dor. Medo da morte, pois nunca se pode ter certeza. É preciso espantar o medo para que a vida não se encolha. Mas o medo só sai quando se confia.