Death Quotes - Page 43

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

Come, let us make love deathless.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

The primary factor is proportions.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.