The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
I am not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
When your time comes to die be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams what's left?
A face to lose youth for to occupy age With the dream of meet death with.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father meeting my husband and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
I am become death the destroyer of worlds.
I am not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen well since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
Since the day of my birth my death began its walk. It is walking toward me without hurrying.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
The timing of death like the ending of a story gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Look I don't want to wax philosophic but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs you've got to jump around a lot for life is the very opposite of death and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully or you're not alive.
At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Even at our birth death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.