Quotes About Death

Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakeable joy.

The most frightful jubilation must be the dying of a god. Only the human being has the distinction of standing in front of death, because the human being is steadfastly in Beyng; death the highest testimony to Beyng.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. This may explain the cascading grief that flooded the country in late November. We mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation, but we grieved as well for ourselves because we knew we were sick.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.

I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity's affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal.

No, not 'well'! Christ no, not 'well'. 'Well'...dot dot dot...'she's'...dot dot dot...'dead'. Dot.

It isn't about being or not being dead. It's about what you leave behind.

Don't fear death. Death is life's companion. If you fear death, you fear life." His hand tightened on her chin. "Nora, don't be afraid to live.

In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity.

That death followed life and life was renewed once again, over and over with the steadiness of the seasons.

They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.

Died August 4th, 1860.

promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours

We ran round, and there lay the unfortunate rider. He was a tall man, full-bearded, with spectacles, one glass of which had been knocked out. The cause of his death was a frightful blow upon the head, which had crushed in part of his skull. That he could have gone on after receiving such an injury said much for the vitality and courage of the man. He wore shoes, but no socks, and his open coat disclosed a nightshirt beneath it. It was undoubtedly the German master.

Se muoio domani, cosa abbastanza probabile, morirò sapendo che la mia missione in questo mondo è stata assolta, e bene. Sono morti per mano mia. Non ho altre speranze o desideri.

death struggle had been a grievous one. On

You won't die in your bed, Holmes. I have often had the same idea.

Then he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward in his side. He was dead.

Qué estúpidos fuimos al suponer que la muerte era nuestro enemigo!

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

Mi madre y mi padre habían muerto y yo no podía hacer nada para cambiarlo. Pero supongo que yo también había estado en cierto modo muerta aquel último año. Y mi hermana... pues sí, se había ido; pero yo no me había ido.