Death Quotes - Page 34

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

I hope you're getting this down.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.