Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that’s what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Nothing in life is promised except death.
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I’d like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
