To The Death Quotes

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.