Death Quotes - Page 71

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

Death is the mother of forms.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Even death has a heart.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.