Death Quotes - page 22

Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into. (J. G. Ballard)
Death is an ascension to a better library. View quote
John Donne
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? View quote
John Donne
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? View quote
John Donne
For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not. View quote
John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. View quote
John Donne
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. View quote
John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. View quote
John Donne
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. (Marcus Aurelius)
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear? View quote
Marcus Aurelius
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release. View quote
Jack Abbott
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death. View quote
Ferdinand Marcos
To avoid pain, people avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. View quote
Rajneesh
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. View quote
Rajneesh
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. View quote
José Rizal
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron. View quote
James Frazer
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. View quote
Alfred Adler
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. View quote
Susan Sontag
I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since. View quote
Freeman Dyson
In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again. View quote
Cat Stevens