Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: death

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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

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.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is a fearful thing.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

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

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.