Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but. . . can't control the world.
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home,. . .
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.