“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.”
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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.”
“Hell, madam, is to love no longer.”
“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”
“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.”
“Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.”
“Fling but a stone, the giant dies.”
“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”
“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”
“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”