Top 1200 After Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

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.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

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

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

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

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

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.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The only way through death is death itself.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.