Death Quotes · Page 394

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people…

— Abbas Kiarostami

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

— Paul Ricoeur

“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”

— Katherine Owen

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

— Ryan Holmes

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

— Holly Black

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

— Sophocles

“For one who believes in Christ, death is a gateway into a new life that will never end.”

— Richard D. Phillips

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and…

— Jonathan Swift

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly…

— Emily Dickinson

“Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. Death is…

— Stephen King

“Contrary to what a lot of people believe (or hope), comfort doesn’t take the pain away. Comfort slides in beside the pain,…

— Peggy Haymes

The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of…

— John of Damascus

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,…

— Philip Reeve

There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self…

— Meghan O'Rourke

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences;…

— John Muir

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

— Antonio Gramsci

“I can truly say my life is worth living now because I’ve found someone worth dying for.”

— Sierra Rose

“Of every ten three are ministers of life (to themselves); and three are ministers of death.”

— Lao Tzu

“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached…

— Abraham Verghese

“for every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.”

— Will Durant

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

— Frederick Lenz

“We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.”

— Benjamin Rubenstein

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life…

— William Wordsworth

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

— Sergio Aragones

“Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the…

— Vinita Kinra

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

— Mencius

“Fear no evil is not fearing death but still looking in to it's eyes to overcome it.”

— C.S. Mac Donald

Ever feel like dying, ever feel alone, ever feel like crying, lost child in a store.

— Mudvayne

“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.”

— Anne Lamott

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose,…

— James Thomson

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

— Charles Spurgeon

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

— Anonymous

“Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!”

— Julieanne O'Conner

“When you die, there is nothing. [...] to describe it in any way is to give it form.”

— Anonymous

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Now that she’s the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.”

— Margaret Atwood

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

— Anne Tyler

“It is notable that nearly every Russian officer wears a ring in which a turquoise is set by way of a talisman…

— Sylvester Clark Gould

Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies

— Clara Lucas Balfour