Quotes About Death

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

What is more immoral than war?

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.

I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

When hospitals close, ambulance times can increase dramatically, and the additional wait often means the difference between life and death.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.

Les grands moments de l'existence, les naissances, la maladie, la mort ont le don de vous ramener à l'extrême banalité et de vous faire monter aux lèvres ces expressions toute faites, nées de la sagesse populaire, et qui traduisent mieux qu'un langage savant les réactions viscérales (47).

Quand tout change pour toi la Nature est la même Et le même soleil se lève sur tes jours. Ami Vous êtes mort pour mon amour Et je meurs, ami, de tendresse Car je n'ai pu venir à temps Ni n'ai pu forcer le destin Pour vous guérir de votre mal. Si je fusse à temps venue La vie je vous eusse rendue Et parlez doucement à vous, De l'amour qui fut entre nous.

Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quella verità, tra quella verità e l'intelligenza del creato avrebbe optato per la prima.

Alla fine di giugno Pietro Gallesio diede la parola alla doppietta.

We know well what we lose by death, but we know not what we gain.

What the bad man most fears is certain to come to him--that is death. It is just as certain to the good man, but to him it is welcome.

where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.