To The Death Quotes

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Is not absence death to those who love?

If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

God is the pain of the fear of death

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Some people would rather die than think.

There's life and death in every email.

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death.