And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory..
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home..
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?.
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And no….
Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger ….
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we….
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead..
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in b….
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.].
A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home do….
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.].
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive..
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun..
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mo….
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives peopl….
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith..
A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time..
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Wh….
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust..
You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been..
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You we….