Top 1200 After Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

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

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate from existence the fear of death arises because then death seems to be dangerous. You will no longer be separate; what will happen to your ego, your personality? And you have cultivated the personality with such care, with such great effort; you have polished it your whole life, and death will come and destroy it

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Not only is hair a part of the body, but because it continues to grow for a time after death, it was considered a symbol of life and spiritual power. Likewise, hair to me is an element of mystery and an intriguing subject that rouses my imagination.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

The Qur'an says that every soul must taste of death. None of us can escape that, but for you there is no such thing as 'death'.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.