death quotes

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Death is a fearful thing.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

An unused life is an early death.

Every loss of life is terrible.

A useless life is an early death.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.