Top 1200 Death Bed Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This will be a week that I change your sheets! Don't try to rest the same way you've rested in the past, for I AM remaking your bed to rest in. Know that I AM causing your house to be reordered and redirecting your steps. And because your bed is being made, stay focused and up with Me, until the breakthrough is seen in your life.

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

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

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

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

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 less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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.

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.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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

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

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

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

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

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.

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

Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

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

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.

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

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!

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

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'.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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