Death Quotes
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If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory - because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death (Death Quotes)
One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job (Death Quotes)
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference (Death Quotes)
I hate God and I hate life. And the closer I come to death, the more I hate life (Death Quotes)
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the Earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth of eternal despair, out of which spring hope and consolation (Death Quotes)
And above all, we must feel and act as if an endless continuation of our Earthly life awaited us after death; and if it be that nothingness is the fate that awaits us we must not, in the words of Obermann, so act that it shall be a just fate (Death Quotes)
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear (Death Quotes)
It is the duty of man to raise up man. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity (Death Quotes)
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity (Death Quotes)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self preservation and life (Death Quotes)
It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty (Death Quotes)
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time (Death Quotes)
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind (Death Quotes)
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment (Death Quotes)
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred (Death Quotes)
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away (Death Quotes)
Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life (Death Quotes)
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death (Death Quotes)
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death (Death Quotes)
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism (Death Quotes)
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death (Death Quotes)
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death (Death Quotes)
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige (Death Quotes)
Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and non-being is the fear of death (Death Quotes)
To resist and subdue nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of life and death (Death Quotes)
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death (Death Quotes)
The death of the individual is not disconnection but simply withdrawal. The corpse is like a footprint or an echo - the dissolving trace of something which the Self has ceased to do (Death Quotes)
I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed (Death Quotes)
To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non being (Death Quotes)
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death (Death Quotes)