Death Quotes - Page 120

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

My life closed twice before its close

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.