Quotes About Death

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

It is significant, I sometimes think, that the facets of nature which quicken my pulse with that awareness of both life and death are inextricably associated with the loneliness of man's mote-like existence in the cosmos?and acceptance of man's essential solitude on earth, or by love, or both together, for they are only different aspects of the same face.

One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.

Si piensas, entenderás que la culpa, los errores, las decepciones y las desgracias son privilegios de una vida consciente. ¡La muerte no tiene esos privilegios!

Christ, our Captain, for a season deigned to dwell in Death's domain, That the dead, long time imprisoned, might return to life again, Breaking by His great example ancient sins' enthralling chain.

the day I die will never come tis' that day should be the day I die as I die I shall lie as ashes with the ones I love most

Fame is a food that dead men eat—I have no stomach for such meat.

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love. Teach me to sustain its freedom; for I am sufficiently Hell. Let me sin against the small beliefs.

Ideas of Self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no Death or cunning has overcome them but is there reinforcement of energy. The dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter- please yourself.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The horror of falling into utter oblivion is not necessarily the fear of what will happen to us after death but of what it says about our relationships now. It is the fear of not amounting to much in our present relations with others.

We qualify for heaven when we enter God's presence. Some people attain that state in this life; while still living on the earth they see God. Others fail to do so even after death.

We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.

Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.

Cilv?ks neiztur?tu dz?ves smagumu, ja zin?tu savu n?ves stundu.

Dievas buvo toks mielaširdingas, jog padar? Mirt? nematom? žmogaus akims. Mes žinom, kad ji ?ia pat, seka ?kandin m?s? kaip šeš?lis ir niekuomet nuo m?s? nesitraukia, Ir vis d?lto jos nematom ir veik visai apie j? užmirštam. O keis?iausia tai, kad juo labiau art?jam prie kapo, juo mažiau galvojam apie Mirt?. Iš tikr?j? tik Dievas gal?jo padaryti tok? stebukl?!

Žmogus negal?t? pakelti gyvenimo, jei žinot? savo mirties valand?.

the key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.

Until Islam stops fixating on the afterlife, until it is liberated from the seductive story of life after death, until it actively chooses life on earth and stops valuing death, Muslims themselves cannot get on with the business of living in this world. Perhaps

In no other modern religion is dissent still a crime, punishable by death.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

I think that the love I sent to him was a merciless thing. I sent him love in exchange for his death; I didn't love him in exchange for his death. I was not intending to console and love him because he was sentenced to death.