Death Quotes

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

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.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

Why fear death? Be scared of living.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Just because we believe the gospel is a life-and-death matter doesn't mean we have to act as if we're dead.

Life is the offspring of death.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Life hath more awe than death.

Walk with the dead For fear of death.

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

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.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!