Death Quotes - Page 25

• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

  Horace

  Kings, Men, Literature

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• Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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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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• Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

  Lyman Beecher

  Running, Clever, Liars

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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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• 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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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Remembrance, Causes

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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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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• ... And death unloads thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Thee

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 25

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• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  Marcel Proust

  Grieving, Filled In, Dying

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

  Remi Kanazi

  Running, Peace, Children

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• When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Life, Lying, Men

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• There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Black And White, Two, Rich Or Poor

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Courage, Art, Cancer

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Faith, Christian

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, African American

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Wisdom, Plato

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• We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.

  Saint Joseph

  Love, Life, Born

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• You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

  August Spies

  Faith, Future, Believe

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Religious

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Sermons on Women of the Bible”, p.274, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

  Tuvia Bielski

  Revenge, Freedom, Animal

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• Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.

  Ahmad Shamloo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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