Death Quotes · Page 538

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

— T. S. Eliot

...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

— Karl Donitz

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

— Bodhidharma

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

— Irma S. Rombauer

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

— Anthony Lawlor

When a person is gone for good, his duty in this world has come to an end. =(

— PrinceAzheef

“Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

— Woody Allen

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the…

— Ken Wilber

“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new…

— Mircea Eliade

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see…

— Heather Brooke

But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements,…

— Leo Buscaglia

...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that…

— Martine Leavitt

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel…

— Shane Claiborne

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your…

— Jim Butcher

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

— Thomas Sowell

“Sidda sank down into the wide flannel embrace of their bodies, and she rested. For a moment she died a little death,…

— Rebecca Wells

If you want to succeed, die in what you do. The life of death will live in you.

— Jeremy Limn

“Some professional astronomy telescopes are associated with unusual illnesses and deaths in their workers.”

— Steven Magee

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

— Propertius

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death…

— Norman Tebbit

Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

“Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.”

— Lynn Austin

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to…

— Pablo Neruda

“After all the love was lost, Claire wanted him to die, but he was happy that she still wants something from him.”

— Anonymous

“Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?”

— William Goldman

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

— Blaise Pascal

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

— Atul Gawande

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

— Gautama Buddha

The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be…

— Sarada Devi

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

— Peter Conrad

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

— Francine Pascal

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”

— Billy Graham

“She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted.”

— Aporva Kala

“Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

— William Gay

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

— James Lee Burke

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

“God shined his laughter down upon us like a giant heat lamp and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole”

— Anne Sexton

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

— Bill Johnson