Top 1200 Suffering And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

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

Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.

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

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

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

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

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

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners.

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

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

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

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

This isn't a dig on journalists, but people like to write about the 'death of blank.' The death of something.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

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.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

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 ?

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.