Quotes About Death

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

9. Abraham's death (25:1 – 11) After Sarah's death, Abraham took another wife, Keturah. Abraham was a rejuvenated old man and continued to be rewarded with the blessing of many offspring. Surprisingly little attention is given to the details of Abraham's death "at a good old age" (cf. 15:15). His final resting place was in that portion of the Promised Land he rightfully owned — the field purchased from Ephron the Hittite.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

O Cisne Foi em abril, eu me lembro, embora em meu espírito fosse dezembro, Que um pássaro ferido foi retirado da escuridão do lago, As penas brancas brilharam ao sol, e de sua boca escorreu a água negra, Enquanto por dentro minha voz gritava até pensar que meu coração iria se partir; Fui eu quem assistiu à sua morte, seguindo à deriva, à deriva, esperando em sua vigília Que Deus levasse sua alma.

Dad used to say, "Death is a part of it all." I say it's the ugly part. But it's why I'm here, why Eiger climbers come. We come because they died, and by dying they created this legend, and we want to be a part of the legend, without dying.

An old man was dying, and when he was dead, they would come for Michael; and they would come for her, to make Michael hurt. Elena knew none of this, neither the things of which he was capable nor the danger he'd brought to her door; but Michael would go to hell to keep her safe. Go to hell. Come back burning.

War is personal, kid. You're surrounded by other soldiers, but you're fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don't signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look.

Jack laughed, and the sound frightened him because there was no rationality in it. It sounded broken and wild, and that's exactly how childhood with Johnny had ended, not in quietness and time, but in a sudden rush of secrets and death and superstitious dread.

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time none of them knew anything.

Yes, people of Hiroshima died manly in the atomic bombing, believing that it was for Emperor's sake.

Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish ' but for the end of all human life.

Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and without your even noticing, the ground around you is swallowed by water until it's gone

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

which would leave the body in its natural state." This it singularly failed to do. From time to time appalling eructations were heard coming from the coffin, and during the lying in state the smell was such that one of the attendant Swiss Guards fainted. Meanwhile, the nose fell off.

consumption that had accounted for his father, his elder brother and his bastard son, and which was soon to carry off his legitimate son, King Edward VI.

No lo entiendes: ella había nacido para morir. Yo nací para matar. Simplemente, era cuestión de que nos encontráramos el uno al otro.

La muerte es el gran juego en el que participa todo el mundo y en el que todo el mundo pierde en el silbido final. Pero el asesinato es ligeramente distinto porque es más parecido a ese momento dentro del partido cuando se decide el resultado. Nos sentamos en las gradas, sin saber cuándo se producirá ese momento preciso.

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