Death Quotes - Page 24

• The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

  Gary L. Francione

  Fashion, Ideas, Doubt

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude

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• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Trainspotting, Dying

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Sweet, Freedom, Business

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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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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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Fear, Blessing, People

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• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  God, Christian, Confidence

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1820). “The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion”, p.63

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Order, Giving

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• Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

  Brittany Maynard

  Life, Time, Peace

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• Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Understanding

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

  Rumi

  Life, People, Taste

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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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• Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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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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• Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

  Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

  Freedom, Understanding, Slavery

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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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• The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Philosophy, Food

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia 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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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Time, Mean

  The Sun, 2010.

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• Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

  Guy Sajer

  Happiness, Time, Live Life

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.98, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• You have to die a few times before you can really live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Truth, Philosophy, Men

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

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