Death Quotes
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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Life is a death-defying experience.
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Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
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Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
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Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
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Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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To take arms against a sea of troubles.
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If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
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See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.
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Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
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There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
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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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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
