Quotes About Death

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

That insane asshole is dead I drowned him and he's not coming back. Look he has a new life a new name now which no one knows except the one who gave it.

Cuando los animales de carne van, con paso lento por el pasillo que los conduce a su espantoso destino, con el miedo en las entrañas, el pelo erizado y el culo lleno de mierda, notamos más que nunca el parentesco y el parecido que tienen con nosotros. Miran la muerte con los mismos ojos.

Perdican era el fruto de las entrañas de Rosette, que era de mi propiedad, así que me correspondía a mí tomar la decisión. A la fuerza, voté por la muerte (...) Tenía la sensación de estar traicionando a mi primer amigo del alma.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic.

No recuerdo donde leí que "la muerte debilita nuestra confianza en la vida al demostrar que al final todo es igualmente fútil ante la oscuridad definitiva". Sí, "fútil" es la palabra exacta.

So I went through the whole list except the names beginning with H, and when I had finished I found that twenty-six boys out of the forty-six in my class had died for das 1000-jährige Reich.

Float like a corpse sting like a lemon.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next. – SHAKESPEARE

Christ Ransomed, Redeemed, Delivered, and Saved us from the power of Death. As long as we cling to him, repenting of our sins and resisting them as best we can, we are saved.

In Euro-American Christianity, "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) means that the punishment for sin is death. It's like saying that the punishment for speeding is a fine. But in Orthodoxy, "the wages of sin is death" means that sin is death. The two are inextricably enmeshed: sin causes death, and fear of death causes sin.

Death is the result of sin, not a punishment. It is a consequence.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

She better not die this time," I guess I said.

Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German prisoners of war.

Faith of our fathers! holy faith!We will be true to thee till death.

It has been curiously remarked by St. Andrew Avellino that those who have a special devotion to the Passion generally die quiet and sweet deaths, as the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalen did. Certainly it is remarkable that, while most of those close to Our Lord died violent deaths, the three who assisted at Calvary should have died so softly, as if already their real death had been died there.

Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything