Death Quotes - Page 91

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

With death comes honesty.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.