Quotes About Death

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

The dark eagles, sleep and death, Rustle all night around my head: The golden statue of man Is swallowed by the icy comber Of eternity. On the frightening reef The purple remains go to pieces, And the dark voice mourns Over the sea. Sister in my wild despair Look, a precarious skiff is sinking Under the stars, The face of night whose voice is fading.

The dead paint a sneering silence on the walls With their white hands.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

All of a sudden, a great crash sounded, and even the calm, collected Peter flinched at the noise. The closet door flew open and two small children, a girl and boy, burst out into the room. They were a ghastly sight, even to Peter's cynical eyes: the little girl had no left arm, the boy had been bleeding from a great wound in his side. Peter felt a touch of sympathy for the pathetic creatures, but then he reminded himself—they were dead!

The living need charity more than the dead.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

The greatest thing in life is to die young — but delay it as long as possible.

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

have no illusions about your personal courage, but remember that you are no use to me dead.

anything the war itself, along with its horrific death toll, made the standard messages of salvation all that more appealing.

There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is: there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

However, in view of the verb used, it appears that the realm of death is the aggressor, attacking the church 49 The meaning then would be that when men and women have been brought into the salvation of the Kingdom of God through the mission of the church, the gates of death will be unable to prevail in their effort to swallow them up.

In the first place, a possible Hellenistic dualism is shattered by the vivid apocalyptic eschatology of 3:10ff. Entrance into God's eternal Kingdom (1:11) is not the apotheosis of the soul at death but entrance into the new heavens and new earth (Isa. 65:17; 66:22).

from God. He endured the penal consequences of our sins.17 Peter's main concern is practical. The effect of the atoning death of Christ is "that we might die to sin and live to righteousness" (2:24). The word for "die" (apoginomai) is different from the usual Pauline word and in this context means to be done with, not to partake of. Peter is not so much concerned with the removal of guilt as with the change in the life of these erstwhile pagans.

This idea is extended in the contrast between the new and the old covenant. The old covenant of Law consisted of commands written on tables of stone, which could only declare the will of God but not provide the power to sinful women and men to obey God's will. Therefore, even though it was glorious, the written code condemns them as sinners and places them under the judgment of death. "The written code kills," whereas what people need is life (2 Cor. 3:6).

We conclude that the "blood" in separation from the flesh does not mean life but death, life surrendered in sacrifice.18