“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
Nobody gets out of here alive, and these quotes do not pretend otherwise. What they offer instead is honesty — about grief, legacy, fear, acceptance, and the strange way that thinking about death can make you more serious about living.
“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.”
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.”
“If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.”
“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.”
“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.”
“It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.”
“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.”
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”
“Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.”
“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.”
“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”
“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”