Death Quotes - Page 67

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

It is, I think, good evidence of life after death

Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

That evil can never be great which is the last.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.