Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. ”

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. ”

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ”

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. ”

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon. ”

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. ”

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? ”

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. ”

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. ”

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. ”