Death Quotes - Page 115

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

You should never die for your beliefs, because what if you're wrong?

If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.

A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease, at home. That is impossible. How can you be at ease when the enemy is waiting for you any moment? It will jump on you and destroy you. How can you be non-tense when death is waiting just around the corner and the shadow of death is always falling on you? It can happen any moment. How can you rest when death is there? How can you relax? The enemy won't allow you to relax.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.