Death Quotes - Page 17

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

the gods play no
favorites.

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations.
When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.