Death Quotes - Page 70

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.