Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I'm working myself to death.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I want to show the world that we have the best fighters. Our motto is, 'Death is better than second place.'

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

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

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.

You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.