Top 1200 Grief And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? If we enter our dreams and interact with the mind's images as if they are real, we should not expect to be free in the state after death. Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.

Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.

There is always a group of death in any World Cup. And it's a complement in a way to be in a group of death because it means that you're a good team also.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.