Top 1200 Inevitable Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Whenever I travel, I seem to get sick - it's probably inevitable when you're on a plane every single day.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, 'Love till Death.' That represents me and my wife - 'til death do us part.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I went to shoot even the day my dad had died. Death is reality.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

In 'Bigg Boss,' back-biting is inevitable. It's a part of the game, and there's nothing wrong about it.

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.