Death Quotes - Page 64

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Give me liberty or give me death.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

Until death it is all life.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.