Death Quotes - Page 78

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.