Quotes about death
death die freedom home rather starve
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
death guys run
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. Jaime Lerner
death excuse hoped time
He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
death mourn time
He hasn't had time to mourn for and feel for the death of his mother. Everything they've done with him has been abusive.
death deserves preached wild
He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates Sydney Smith
death dna forced helped innocence people project save testing
Had it not been for the DNA testing done by, and in some ways, forced by the Innocence Project, these people would still be incarcerated or on Death Row. The Innocence Project has helped save lives. Wayne Smith
deaths decline fatality focus good inherently needs news number overall rate remarkable time
There is good news in that the overall fatality rate is on the decline ... at the same time there are still a remarkable number of job-related deaths that we think are inherently preventable. That's where the focus needs to be.
death divine finds home leave led light messenger within
Within the home of his heart, he finds the Divine Self, and his light blends with the Light. The Messenger of Death does not leave the hypocrite, he is led away in dishonor.
death hollow mortal rounds temples within
Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court. William Shakespeare
death walk winner
We've been top-five and top-tenning them to death all year. That's what got us in the Chase. I'd like to go out a winner at Homestead. I want to win the thing and walk off. Rusty Wallace
death fate men
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man. Blaise Pascal
death real years
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy. Blaise Pascal
death dies knows
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. Blaise Pascal
death loss men
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering. Blaise Pascal
death sadness mean
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death. Blaise Pascal
death men agony
Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? Blaise Pascal
death painful danger
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. Blaise Pascal
death thinking bears
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. Blaise Pascal
death atheist atheism
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Blaise Pascal
death dying
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. Blaise Pascal
death suicide years
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years. Blaise Pascal
death jesus joy
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. Blaise Pascal
deathbed man remember trouble worries worry
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. Winston Churchill
death mainstream naturally parties
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. Timothy Noah
death wind thunderbolts
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. Charles Olson
death law accumulation
Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law Charles Olson
death religious men
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow. Bertrand Russell
death fall dark
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Bertrand Russell
death christian atheist
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell
death education thinking
Some people would rather die than think. Bertrand Russell
death god spiritual
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence Bertrand Russell
death atheist intelligence
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell
death men hands
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Cardinal Richelieu