Death QuotesEvery breath you take is a step towards death.  Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked. Death is never very far. Death is near and our mutual company is short. Poverty is the worst form of death. The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life. Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives. But all that talk about death being the same as sleep.
Yes, the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, "Everybody up, it's morning," it's very hard to find your slippers. And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together. Biography is one of the new terrors of death. His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names. An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. |
