Death Quotes - Page 118

One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

Im certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.

I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.

Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

I shall not altogether die.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.