Top 999 Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Healthcare is a human right. No one should face bankruptcy or death because of lack of healthcare. All Americans - regardless of their health or residential status - should be able to access the healthcare they need, whenever they need it.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.