Deaths Quotes (page 138)

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• death
• end
• them

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living. Arundhati Roy

• avoiding
• to live
• mind

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

• death
• higher
• sierra

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death] John Muir

• feeling
• feeling down
• space

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

• death
• deathly
• lives

Live you can evade; death you cannot. Dean Koontz

• death
• world
• fascinate

What is this fascination the world has with death? John Irving

• death
• brave
• die

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once. Ernest Hemingway

• death
• expectation
• had

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. Anne Rice

• men
• loss
• animal

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

• death
• humanity
• facing death

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. Sydney Smith

• fish
• death
• soul

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

• life
• nature
• death

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death. Stephenie Meyer

• death
• him
• boys

That the boy was all that stood between him and death. Cormac McCarthy

• moments
• welcome
• war

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

• power
• powerful
• new

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