Death Quotes - Page 76

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

... And death unloads thee.