Death Quotes
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality, the death penalty contradicts this.
Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.
We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.
To show forbearance and gentleness in teaching others; and not to revenge unreasonable conduct - this is the energy of southern regions, and the good man makes it his study. To lie under arms; and meet death without regret - this is the energy of northern regions, and the forceful make it their study. Therefore, the superior man cultivates a friendly harmony, without being weak - How firm is he in his energy!
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death'.
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity-and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future - and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
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