Death Quotes - Page 23

• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humorous, Profound, Dying

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview With Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com.

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Night, Light

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Civilization

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Indifference, Dies

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wisdom, Zero, Long

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• 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.

  Mark Helprin

  Prayer, Pain, Drama

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• The young may die, but the old must!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  May, Young, Dies

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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

  William Mountford

  Possibility, Life Death, Sublimity

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.228

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• The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

  James Patterson

  Funny Things, Perspective, Maximum Ride

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dark, Soul, Dying

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Dying, Sun

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 26, 1678.

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• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Fear, Science

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• There is no death. The thing that we call death
  Is but another, sadder name for life.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Names, Life Death

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• Death rides on every passing breeze,
  He lurks in every flower.

  Reginald Heber

  Flower, Passing, Breeze

  Reginald Heber (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Goodbye

  'Good-bye' (1847)

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• Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

  Gregory Palamas

  God, Christian, Religious

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

  Jase Robertson

  Funny, Redneck, Entrepreneur

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• May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Sad, God, Country

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• The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

  Howard Storm

  Christian, Religious, Long

  Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony

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• I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

  Rumi

  Life, People, Taste

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• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  Dean Ornish

  Change, Heart, Health

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Marriage, Time

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

  C.D. Wright

  Expression, Poetry, Dying

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Reading, Health, Fighting

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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