Death Quotes - Page 94

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.