Death Quotes
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At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.
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The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
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But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.
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The goal of all life is death...
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I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
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Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
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If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
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Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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The capital punishment controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious – seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.
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To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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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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Death comes for us all in the end.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.
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Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
