To The Death Quotes

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

To me death is better than the defensive.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.