Death Quotes
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One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.
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There are women whose love only ends with death.
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The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
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Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
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I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
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Our knowledge of life is limited to death.
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The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
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I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.
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Today words like 'persevere' and 'hero’s death' had been so ceaselessly bandied about that they had long since acquired an ironic sound—at least wherever there was actual fighting. . . . Once, before an attack, Sturm had heard an old sergeant say the following: 'Kids, we’re going over there now to gobble up the Englishmen’s rations.' It was the best battle address that he had ever heard. That was surely something good in the war—that it destroyed glorious-sounding phrases. Concepts that hung fleshless in the void were overcome by laughter.
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For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
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What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
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He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.
