Death Quotes - Page 46

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

that voice was a deathless song.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.

And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

I don't want to die without any scars.

We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.