Quotes About Death

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287–300).

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. from "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950)

felsefe yapmak ölmeyi öÄŸrenmektir.

The gods of Greece, once tragically wounded to death in the chained Prometheus of Æschylus, were fated to die a comic death in Lucian's dialogues

there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

A life without death would be like a day without sleep.

Only one who has practiced intensively in preparation for the transition that occurs at death and gained sufficient mental control is capable of exerting an influence on its future state of existence or avoiding rebirth altogether by achieving liberation.

You! You are so lucky you're dead.

There was no place to hide from a creature who stalked the edges of death itself.

Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.

He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future.

Juliet sighed and wondered if one day she would think herself to death. Was that possible? And would it be painful?

but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.

Why did people understand how precious each day was only once the doors to the grave had opened and they had looked inside? What was the point of that?

I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday.

Laika," she would say, "the first dog in space. She died of heat and stress after a few hours. She was rescued from an animal center, she must have thought she was going to a home, to a family, and instead they sent her to the loneliest death in the world.

Don't seek out elaborate metaphors," her English teacher had said of her school essays, but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.