Quotes About Death

As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worse. -Richard Rahl

We have people like that in our world, too. People who say that freedom is no longer practical, that we must surrender it for a greater common good." "Fear them," she whispered. "They are the heart of evil. They tolerate tyranny, excuse it, compromise with it. In so doing they always bring savagery and death upon the rest of us.

In a time of peace, you have the luxury of order, but in war you must act. Hesitation is death.

Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

I asked him what the amulet meant to him, what its meaning was. At first, I thought he wasn't going to answer. But then, in a haunting voice, he said that it represented the dance with death. I was horrified by that. He said the dance with death was the way of the War Wizard.

The dead must heed them.

War Wizards don't give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.

Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, Naja said, and that doesn't involve magic.

Richard's mind was filled with the flow and form of the dance with death, the way of a war wizard. He was lost in that dance he had come to know so well.

The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.

When he died, he told himself, he would have all eternity to rest. If he wanted to live, if he wanted others to live, it was going to take effort.

Does death invalidate life? No, it defines it, and in so doing creates its value.

Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst.

Dance with me, Death. I am ready. - Richard Cypher Rahl

They knew how to cut a person both to cause pain, to cripple, and to bring a swift death, and they weren't timid about doing either.

he's the one on the x. he's already dead. i just need to go tell him.

death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe.

Death: THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT. Albert: Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...