Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ”

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ”

You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. ”

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. ”

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death. ”

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. ”

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ”

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years. ”

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. ”

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. ”