Quotes Death

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think 'How lucky are the dead.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Even for the Christian, death is a part of life. Unlike they that do not believe, the Christian has a blessed hope – that is the return of the Savior Jesus to catch up His Church and bring them to eternal life with Him and God the Father in Heaven. Here are some scripture quotes about death that I hope will comfort you. As He Promised, He. Explanation of the famous quotes in Death of a Salesman, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.

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