Quotes About Death

Here then we have the standing and fixed measures of life and death. Immortality and bliss, belong to the righteous; those who have lived in an exact conformity to the law of God, are out of the reach of death; but an exclusion from paradise and loss of immortality is the portion of sinners; of all those who have any way broke that law, and failed of a complete obedience to it, by the guilt of any one transgression

Dominion of life and death, making war, and concluding peace, p. 13. Adam and the patriarchs had absolute power of life and death

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

It wasn't overwhelmingly catastrophic he killed himself. Most people who mess about with heroin, they lose their souls way earlier, it's just waiting for the body to keel over.

I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.

In the midst of death we are in life

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.

Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.

People, shadows, good, bad, Heaven, Hell: all of these were names, labels, that was all. Humans had created these opposites: Nature recognised no opposites. Even life and death weren't opposites in Nature: one was merely an extension of the other.

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

Ludzie, cienie, dobro, z?o, niebo, piek?o: wszystko to tylko etykietki, nic wi?cej. Ludzie sami stworzyli te przeciwie?stwa: natura ich nie dostrzega?a. W naturze nawet ?ycie i ?mier? nie by?y przeciwie?stwami - po prostu jedno stawa?o si? przed?u?eniem drugiego.stwa

This earth is only the grave and Golgotha wherein all things that live must rot.

Win the ship a name of glory, win the men a death of grace

A man is born. He dies.

Through the window the stones of the graveyard stood out beyond the laurels in the moon, all the dead about, lives as much filled with themselves and their importance once as you this night, indecision and trouble and yearning put down equal with laughing into that area of clay, and they lay calm as you would one eternal night while someone full of problems and uncertainties would lie as awake as you in a room.

It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

At the hospital, an unfamiliar doctor told them that Vivi hadn't made it. She didn't make it was too gentle a phrase because it sounded like Vivi hadn't made it this time but could maybe try again.

The morning after my death we will sit in cafés but I will not be there I will not be

On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Five point four million. And it wasn't nearly over yet.

Because Tarik was dead.

Tarik was dead. Lumeo was dead. An

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.