Quotes About Death

They were the first ones to die, you know. You can't accuse them of hypocrisy. The Governors Assessed their creators first.

The dying had the gift of ruthlessness. He knew that by hard experience. And there was something in her expression as she looked up at him that stopped his voice completely.

And if we Severinos are all the same in life, we die the same death, the same Severino death. The death of those who die of old age before thirty, of an ambuscade before twenty, of hunger a little daily.

—And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measlesseventeen years ago come March.

Senescent cells can leak proinflammatory substances that make you vulnerable to more pain, more chronic illness. Eventually, many senescent cells will undergo a preprogrammed death. The

A living dog's better than a dead lion.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.

Aun en la muerte, te quiero junto a mi.

Avevo visto mia madre innamorarsi così spesso... era come se lo volesse disperatamente, come se stesse soffocando e quella fosse la sua aria. Ci ha lasciato per prendere un'ultima boccata, e alla fine l'amore l'ha uccisa. L'amore ti può distruggere. Può portarti via tutto

sacrifice and denial are not always one and the same. The word sacrifice means to make sacred. Life is sacred, and sacrifice is returning to life what life has given. A sacrifice might be something offered or relinquished. Something dies and becomes the ground of new life, and both the life and the death are sacred.

This war has made a mockery of the arrogant fools we were. Our brother's life ended in a second; my own hung in the balance. And from what we have all heard, you have diced with death on a number of occasions." He held out his hand, saying, "I no longer have the stomach for finer feelings that are affronted by nothing at all, have you?

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and Mourner Fly for relief & lay their burdens down.

Love, and nothing else, was eternal. "Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.

Unlike Job's comforters he believed there was a supreme goodness that could renew his own soul beyond this wasting sorrow of human life and death.

Her strong, warm clasp did not falter, but her panic grew. An abyss seemed opening at her feet too, as for the first time in her life she realized the meaning of death. However strong religious faith may be, death remains an abyss that swallows the familiar companion of everyday as though he had never been. It is the most awful fact of human life, and at the moment Marianne knew it not only with her mind but for the first time with her panic-stricken soul as well.

Have you ever seen a bird without its beak? Horrible, just tiny dead eyes and a hole in its face.

The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species at that.

Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions.

Ich meine nur, dass man über fast alles hinwegkommt. Das ist eines der Dinge, die einfach erstaunlich sind. Das ist auch der Grund, weswegen Leute wie Hamlet so wahnsinnige Angst vor der Hölle hatten. Dass es nicht aufhört, und deswegen glaube ich persönlich auch nicht daran. Ich glaube, solange man lebt, verändert sich alles, und wenn man tot ist, hört es einfach auf.

How the alternative reduces one's prospect and petrifies the imagination in a way that the possibility can never do. Possibilities, innumerable and tightly packed, could shower forth like mushroom spore between such alternatives as being here, or there; alive, or dead; and old, or young.

Xas explained. 'To make your mark is to fall to your death, splashing some farmer's field. He's saying I take big risks to make my mark, to finally lose my game with gravity.

Surely it's better to be human and live with grief, than outgrow your humanity and learn to raise the dead too late to raise your own.

A man with no name may you claim, heart and body and soul. Then rich life might grow, but death will surely flow. "'In shades of darkness he will come to you. If you touch him, you will know life that might or death that will. "'Be therefore as sunlight, hidden in amber, untouched by man, not touching. "'Forbidden.