Death Quotes - Page 26

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself into the crater of Mount Etna so that he might vanish from the world completely and thus lead men to believe he had achieved apotheosis. Unfortunately the volcano defeated his design by throwing out one of the philosopher's sandals.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?