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Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.
Sep 10, 2025
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.
So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
In the long run we are all dead.
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.