Death Quotes - Page 37

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

Death doesn't frighten me.

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge "life" and "death" are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have only to consult your death for the proper direction. Death will never lie to you.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.