Death Quotes - Page 14

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means 'Memento Mori' - remember you must die.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

I love life more than I love death.

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.