Death Quotes - Page 11

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.