Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. ”

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. ”

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death. ”

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. ”

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. ”

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ”

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. ”

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. ”

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. ”

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. ”