Death Quotes - Page 65

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Death is dancing me ragged.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

And death makes equal the high and low.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.