To The Death Quotes

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Death is the only real elegance.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

There's no repentance in the grave.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

See in what peace a Christian can die.

I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Life and death are one thread.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I’m going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.