Top 1200 Mourning Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

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

Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

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

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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.

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

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

People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate from existence the fear of death arises because then death seems to be dangerous. You will no longer be separate; what will happen to your ego, your personality? And you have cultivated the personality with such care, with such great effort; you have polished it your whole life, and death will come and destroy it

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

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.

We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

You know, losing my husband in 2008, that was a completely unexpected thing. And that process of grief and mourning that has taught me a lot about life, and how we never know how long we have.

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

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.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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'.

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.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

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

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

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.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

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.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

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.

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

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.

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

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

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