Death Quotes - Page 22

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

What will survive of us is love.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.