Top 1200 Death Wish Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

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 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.

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

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

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

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

When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it."

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.

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

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!

Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

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

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.

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

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

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

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

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

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'.

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

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.

The only way through death is death itself.

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

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

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

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

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.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

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

I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.

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

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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