Death Quotes - Page 45

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Life and death are one thread.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.