Death quotes

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.