Quotes About Death

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

One thing Henry found especially lacking were my descriptions of death. "They read like a eunuch writing about an orgy" is how he put it.

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die.

Cuchullain died as a hero should — on a battlefield, with his back to a rock and his face to the foe, buckler on arm, and spear in hand. He died standing, and in that defiant attitude (supported by the rock) was many days dead ere the enemy dared venture near enough to reassure themselves of his exit — which they only did when they saw the vultures alight upon him, and, undisturbed, peck at his flesh.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

to be, or not to be?

I'm more afraid of marriage than death.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

Nations are fictions, and I don't die for fictions.

the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.

Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.

SOLOMON KUGEL His performance, of late, had been subpar. Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

Just move the train, for fuck's sake, she's not getting any deader.

She died a few days later, and her death buried once and for all the intrigues between the Precious Wife, the Gracious Wife, and all the Imperial favorites. Rivalries and alliances, loathing and attraction had been dissolved. Their existence had been a pointless tragedy, just as the talent of one prodigious poetess had been.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the death of comfort, complacency, sloth, and shallowness that we might witness to your love in life and death. Amen.

God hates sin, because God loves people and sin destroys us. So divorce is bad because it breaks people's hearts and rips families apart—not just because we broke a law. God hurts when we hurt. God cannot stand to watch us hurt ourselves and others. Sin leads to death—it eats away our bodies and our souls like a cancer.

Some Christians take so few risks it's no wonder folks have a hard time believing in Heaven. Most of us live in such fear of death that it's as if no one really believes in resurrection anymore.

Death closes the door to any possibility for redemption. Grace opens up that door.