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Death Quotes (page 138)

Arundhati Roy quote: "What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living."
What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living. Arundhati Roy
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, everypart of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Lifeconsists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Muir quote: "He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo..."
He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death] John Muir
People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. Tom Robbins
Dean Koontz quote: "Live you can evade; death you cannot."
Live you can evade; death you cannot. Dean Koontz
John Irving quote: "What is this fascination the world has with death?"
What is this fascination the world has with death? John Irving
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once."
Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once. Ernest Hemingway
Anne Rice quote: "He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive,..."
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. Anne Rice
Unfortunately, we forget the cruel details of the agonizing sacrifice God made on our behalf. Familiarity breeds complacency. Even before his crucifixion, the Son of God was stripped naked, beaten until almost unrecognizable, whipped, scorned and mocked, crowned with thorns, and spit on contemptuously. Abused and ridiculed by heartless men, he was treated worse than an animal. Then, nearly unconscious fromblood loss, he was forced to drag a cumbersome cross up a hill, was nailed to it, and... Rick Warren
Sydney Smith quote: "Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their..."
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. Sydney Smith
By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me. Arthur Conan Doyle
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle..."
Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. Stephenie Meyer
Cormac McCarthy quote: "That the boy was all that stood between him and death."
That the boy was all that stood between him and death. Cormac McCarthy
And in that very moment, away behind in some far corner of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed reckoning nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. J. R. R. Tolkien
When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods. Marcel Proust

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