Death Quotes · Page 449

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

— Carol P. Christ

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

— Petrarch

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

— Mitch Albom

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

— Phyllis Bottome

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

— Hermann Hesse

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

— James Hansen

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside…

— Maximus the Confessor

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Later, everybody agreed the baths should have been closed sooner; they agreed health education should have been more direct and more timely.…

— Randy Shilts

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the…

— Charles Dickens

Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes…

— Lucretius

So now I'm flirting with death, hustling like a G While victory wasn't watching took chances repeatedly As a teenage boy before…

— Jay-z

“Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When…

— Augustine of Hippo

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

— Sorin Cerin

“> Why does everything that lives have to die? < So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.”

— Chaim Potok

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

— Epictetus

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly…

— Gary North

“You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.”

— Steven Magee

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

— Erich Fromm

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die…

— Cesare Borgia

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of…

— Jennifer Ashton

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

— Madeline Miller

“Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.”

— Darrell Drake

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

— Douglas Coupland

“When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.”

— Holly Hood

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

— Dean Cavanagh

“was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his”

— Oscar Wilde

“If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid…

— Dan Brown

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

— Billy Graham

“If you knew you were going to die, wasn’t it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate…

— Jodi Picoult

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

— John Phillips

“I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph.”

— Augusten Burroughs

There is no dearth of talent in India, but there is no encouragement and facilities to train.

— P. T. Usha

“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life, and in real life, I am not getting pecked to death by…

— Veronica Roth

“Many people say ‘Better to die’ until the time comes to do it,” Morozko returned.”

— Katherine Arden

“ll life must feel pain in the face of death. To live without ain is to live without dignity.”

— Wu Ming-Yi

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,…

— Anonymous