Death Quotes
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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There is no wisdom but in death
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To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
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All games contain the idea of death.
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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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I'm working myself to death.
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Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
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There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.
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It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
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All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.
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Death is the gate of life.
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For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
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The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.
