How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.
~ P. Sainath
A poor man is a living dead one.
~ Anzia Yezierska
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.
~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant
Most of [the alchemists] were poor; many all but unknown in their own time, many died and saw no fruit of their labours… Of some the very names are forgotten. But though their names be dead, their works live, and grow and spread over ever fresh generations of youth, showing them fresh steps towards that temple of wisdom which is the knowledge of things as they are.
~ Kingsley
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
~ Mother Teresa
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
~ Anthony Liccione
A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.
~ A.d. Posey
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist.
~ Diane Setterfield
Every artist takes their final work to the grave.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Death is almost never timely, even for the old.
~ Christopher Bram
As long as music survives, poetry will never die.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.
~ Ernst Pawel
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you? ... I really loved to write.
~ Cornell Woolrich
Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about - the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact.
~ Jolie Booth
Capture your youth, while you can.
My journey was not over, it was just beginning.
~ Aubrey Moore
I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.
~ J.r. Rim
The dead tread softly... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly.
~ C.m. Palov
I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.
~ Dan Mccurrigan
I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.
~ Billy Graham
The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.
Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].
Jesus Christ was the Master Realist when He urged men to prepare for death, which was certain to come. Do not worry, said the Lord Jesus, about the death of the body, but rather concern yourself with the eternal death of the soul.
Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].
Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth . . .Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.
Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?
If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.
Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.
It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?
Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.
When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.
Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
The word decease literally means “exodus” or “going out.” The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
