Death Quotes - page 17

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine. (Rick Riordan)
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. View quote
Richard Adams
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once. View quote
Sogyal Rinpoche
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. View quote
William Goldman
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. View quote
William Goldman
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. View quote
Hermann Broch
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it. (Brian Jacques)
‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true. View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever. View quote
Eloisa James
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. View quote
Eben Alexander
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity. View quote
Kathy Reichs
If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom. View quote
Catherine Fisher
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? View quote
Cornelia Funke
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers, The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again! View quote
Langston Hughes
I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death. View quote
Lynsay Sands
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. View quote
Mary Catherine Bateson
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. View quote
Oliver Lodge
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. View quote
Oliver Lodge