death

"This body made of flesh is subject to death. If it is not washed for a single day, it stinks. We cannot trust the human body."

"We're mortal - which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful - but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best. A few times we succeed. What more dare …"

"The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created."

"But when returning into herself she reflects; then she passes into the realm of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred, and with them she ever lives, when s…"

"The death of John Barrymore made us think again for a minute of F. Scott Fitzgerald. They were very different men: a lot alike. Undoubtedly, they both worked hard, but there was the same sense of a di…"

"You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

"Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder."

"Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignifi…"

"How can we measure the effects if we can't even count the dead to the nearest million?"

"Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited."

"Any law Made for the preserve of a human right, made to guard a human being, cannot sleep long enough to die; but any law that deprives a human being of a natural right -- if that law goes to sleep, i…"

"Let us now shrink from parodying Hegel, and state that for our patrician ‘the romantic is the real, the real the romantic’."

"His death made him famous, he can come back now."

"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realitie…"

"Hope, faith, love and a strong will to live offer no promise of immortality, only proof of our uniqueness ans human beings and the opportunity to experience full growth even under the grimmest circums…"

"She wondered what it said about her that she’d watched a woman shot to death not two hours before and all she could think about now was lunch."

"Once I’m dead, I can afford to be patient."

"I don't care if I'm remembered or not when I'm dead."

"I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer."

"Ibn 'Abbas said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed by some graves at Madina and turned his face towards them and said, "Peace be upon you, O people of the graves…"