Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. ”

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. ”

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. ”

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is. ”

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. ”

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. ”

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. ”

When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death. ”

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them? ”

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. ”