Death Quotes - Page 86

Some people would rather die than think.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

Life and death and rebirth live within me.

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.