A suicide is not a simple death, bringing peace with it. It haunts; it asks a question.
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Quotes tagged ‘Death’
Until that time I had understood death as something totally separate and independent from life...
Breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.
Death exists, not as the opposite, but as part of life.
Summer Thought: If you convert a bug zapper to a human zapper, scaling by body mass, you’d receive a jolt of 50 billion volts.
Guns don’t kill people. Bullets kill people. Fired from guns, brandished by people, who shoot you by accident or on purpose.
When a doctor’s prognosis is bad, we want to seek a second opinion. But when a prognosis is good we’re somehow okay with it.
400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II. 400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001.
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
The majority of the living weary us or are strangers to us. We truly know and love only the dead. So long as man is alive one does not know what he is or what he will do. We have unwavering confidence only in the dead.
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100-billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
Let us commend to the love of God with silent prayer the soul of a sinful man who partly tried to do his duty. It is by his wish that I say over his grave these words and no more.
I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'it is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.
'Does it hurt?' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. 'Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep.'
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.
It will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry!
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed.…
From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…
Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.