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Quotes About Death

The highest percentages of death by abortion were recorded among minorities and the poor, who, not coincidentally, live in areas with the highest numbers of abortion clinics, placed in those locations by persons with an agenda.
~ John Price
What has been the biggest cause of bloodshed? In fact, what has been the leading cause of death, in America over the last thirty eight years? Murder? Approximately 700,000 persons have died homicidal deaths in that period. That's a tragedy, certainly. Compare, however, the number of Americans who have died at the hands of a murderer, to the number of Americans in the last forty years who have died at the hands of abortionists – fifty five million.
~ John Price
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
~ John Quincy Adams
granite because that's what tombstones are made of.
~ John R. Erickson
Most people do not die, they cease to exist. In order to die, you first have to live. Signed: God
~ John R. Powers
Paul said in II Corinthians 5:8, "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." Every saint who is absent from the body is present with the Lord Jesus in Heaven. At death the soul of the Christian is carried by the angels of God straight Home where Christ and the Father are.
~ John R. Rice
"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.
~ John Randolph Thompason
A gloomy, harebrained enthusiast, after his death may have a place in the calendar; but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delirious and dismal as himself" (E:II:27o).
~ John Rawls
And then, before I knew it, Duke was dead. . . . He was a truckdriver, and sometimes we were so poor we couldnt even make it: I had to hustle in drag in order to keep us going
~ John Rechy
And throughout the days that followed—and will follow forever—I will discover him in my memories, and hopelessly—through the infinite miles that separate life from death—try to understand his torture: in searching out the shape of my own.
~ John Rechy
The world was revealing its death to me by the process of slow discovery: the slowly gnawing loss of innocence; and I found myself longing for the God in Whom, unquestionably, I had believed as a child. But this world of loneliness and desperation belied Him. The sky was now a black cave where once it had been limitless, stretching into that Heaven of childhood angels and peace.
~ John Rechy
People die when they see life at last without Illusions. For some, it takes many, many years; for others, much less. And so each of us commits suicide: when we will our own deaths: That is the only Death.
~ John Rechy
Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...
~ John Richardson
NAFTA is a death sentence for the Indians
~ John Ross
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
~ John Ruskin
They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.
~ John Sandford
It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead.
~ John Saul
She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.
~ John Saul
Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.
~ John Saul
There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go.
~ John Saul
What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi
A Curse Against Elegies": I refuse to remember the dead. And the dead are bored with the whole thing. But you—you go ahead, go on, go on back down into the graveyard, lie down where you think their faces are; talk back to your old bad dreams.
~ John Searles
death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
~ John Shelby Spong
I prepare for death by living.
~ John Shelby Spong