Death quotes

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.