Death Quotes - Page 51

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.

Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.