Quotes About Death

why don't people come back to Earth after they die?

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to die

The sick and elderly sometimes say, "Let me go. I am ready to meet the Lord." But what need do I have for such surrender? I have met the Lord already.

But today is not yesterday, and the Reb could do nothing but listen to the worst imaginable words—We couldn't save her—told to him by a doctor he had never met before that night. How could this happen? She had been perfectly normal earlier in the day, a playful child, her whole life before her. We couldn't save her? Where is the logic, the order of life?

How long have i been dead? A minute. An hour. A thousand years

People see me as a bridge.I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of .....in-between.

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses

When the news came that his father had died—slipped away, a nurse told him, as if he had gone out for milk—Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger, the kind that circles in its cage. Like most workingmen's sons, Eddie had envisioned for his father a heroic death to counter the commonness of his life.

After Lilly's death, Inspector LeFleur viewed things differently. Why turn to God now? Where was God when his MIL fell asleep? Where was God when his daughter got swept into the sea? What kind of God lets a child die that way? There was no comfort in invisible forces, not for LeFleur. There was only what got put in front of you and how you dealt with it. If he was in the lifeboat he would have pinned him down and held Him accountable for all the horrors He allowed in this world.

Mom?" I whispered. I hadn't said it in so long. When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever

Everyone in this parish is going to die!' "The minister looked around. He noticed a man in the front pew, smiling broadly. "'Why are you so amused?' he asked. "I'm not from this parish,' the man said. 'I'm just visiting my sister for the weekend.

At certain moments, when death is close, the veils pull back between this world and the next. Heaven and earth overlay. When they do, it is possible to glimpse certain souls already departed. You can see them awaiting your arrival. And they can see you coming.

Kematian mengakhiri hidup, bukan hubungan.

Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

feel happy because there is fish to eat. But sad because I kill it. I don't want to be in this world anymore, Benji, taking things. I want the last thing I do to be giving. You and others please, eat the fish. Stay alive. I want to be with my Bernadette. I know she is safe. I think last night she let me see Heaven. She is saying God waits for me. I pray you get home. I leave

A morte, assim como o crime, é lugar-comum. (...)Por outro lado, a lógica é rara. Portanto, manter uma atitude mental lógica, especialmente quando enfrentamos a mortalidade, pode ser difícil. No entanto, é sempre na lógica, e não na morte, que devemos nos pautar.

Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily life.

Someday you will die somehow and something's gonna steal your carbon.

I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

a gun was a marker on the journey of death, and was to be respected as such, like a coffin or a grave or a meal in winter, not to be foolish with...

Saeed prayed a great deal, and so did his father, and so did their guests, and some of them wept, but Saeed had wept only once, when he first saw his mother's corpse and screamed, and Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a stutter, or a shiver, that would not let go, for his sense of loss was boundless, and his sense of the benevolence of the universe was shaken, and his wife had been his best friend.

they felt the dead daily, hourly, as they lived their lives, and their feeling of the dead was important to them, an important part of what made up their particular way of living, and not to be hidden from, for it could not be hidden from, it could not be hidden from at all.

and you are ready, ready to die well, ready to die like a man, like a woman, like a human, for despite all else you have loved, you have loved your father and your mother and your brother and your sister and your son and, yes, your ex-wife and you have loved the pretty girl, you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have ...

There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things.