To The Death Quotes

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Death can be more exciting than life.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.