Death Quotes - Page 30

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.