Top 1200 Shadow Of Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.

I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.