DEATH
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“The living know that they will die, but the Dead know nothing at all, nor do they any more have reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going.” – Solomon – Eccl. 9:5,10 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear of death. – Voltaire
Dying is one of the few things that can be done lying down. – Woody Allen
It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. – Gilda Radner
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. – The Devil to the new arrivals at Hell’s door – Gary Larson – THE FAR SIDE
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. – Cherokee expression
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. – Erma Bombeck
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin
The worst thing that can happen to a person is not to die young. The worst thing is to live along active life, only to be separated eternally from God. – Someone very wise
The idea is to die young—as late as possible – Ashley Montague
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton
Cowards die many times before their death. – Julius Caesar
The bitterest tears shed over graves are the words left unsaid and the deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw
I guess I’ll retire some day, if I live that long. – (Coach) Bobby Bowden
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in Paradise and look like your passport photo. – ErmaBombeck
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“His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground; on that day his thoughts do perish.” –King David – Psalm 146: 4– The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“The wolves became lambs. Such transformations occur in last agonies of life. However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
I intend to live forever—so far, so good. – Steven Wright
The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule begins. – Soren Kierkegaard
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – W. M. Lewis
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying. – Woody Allen
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. – Ronald Reagan
It is forbidden to kill—therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbersto the sound of trumpets. – Voltaire
Motivation – In an experiment bees were taken to outer space. Because of weightlessness, they saw no need to fly. They all DIED! – Paul Harvey
The wages of sin is death, but by the time they take taxes out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. – Paula Poundstone
Here’s the test to find out if your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t! – Richard Bach
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. – P. J. O’Rourke
Death is a challenge. It tells you not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
Always go to other people’s funeral, otherwise they won’t come to yours. – Yogi Berra
You don’t choose how you are going to die, or when. But you can decide how you are going to live now. – Joan Baez
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. – Erma Bombeck
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“Jesus said to her: “You brother (Lazarus) will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone who is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?”” - Apostle John – John 11: 23-26 – Jesus Christ – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
“It’s a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”– Charles Darney facing execution by guillotine at the conclusion of A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Charles Dickens
This would be a good day to put on my tombstone: “Wherever she went, it was against my better judgment.” – Dorothy Parker
There are worse things than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? – Woody Allen
“Am I in heaven?” asked Denise Lockie after Pilot Sully miraculously crash-landed her airplane on the frozen Hudson River. “No, and I’m no angel,” – Mark Hood, as he urged her to get moving quickly toward the exit.
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button. – Sam Levinson
“You can’t make an arrangement with destiny; tomorrow will not obey you,” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
The die is cast. – JuliusCaesar
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. – Erma Bombeck
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. – Myles Munroe
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. – Italian pro verb
Love makes us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. – Georges Santayana
When it hits you, you ask, “Where do I go from here?” Psychological shock sets in and shock sometimes acts as an anesthetic. Anger accompanies grief. On the heels of anger is guilt. This type of isolation (self-pity) is unnatural. The rug has finally been pulled from underneath us. – Jim Conway – MEN IN MID-LIFE CRISIS
Intellectual growth should commence at birth, and cease only at death. – Albert Einstein
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“That is why, just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin, so death spread to all men because they had all sinned.”– Apostle Paul – Rom. 5:12 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
‘They’ insisted that our schools must boot God out, and rely on ‘Junior’s intelligence. So we graduated a generation of juniors with refined intellects and undisciplined emotions—so school age suicides soared 92% in the last two years! – Paul Harvey
I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen
Victor Hugo matured in his grief. One of his daughters went insane. Adele, his wife, died. In 1871 one of his sons died. In 1873 the other died. He carried these tragedies as a personal portfolio of grief and guilt. At 80 years, Hugo was a sage—and the poet of the common man. He stayed in political exile on the island of Guernsey for nineteen years. – Gary Pulliam
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what goes on the inside while we live. – Norman Cousins
Death is not the solution to all problems. No men—no problems – Joseph Stalin
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. – Emily Bronte
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is a destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And yet that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. – Steve Jobs
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than the eternal torment in Hell and the eternal boredom in Heaven. – Isaac Asimov
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. – Fidel Castro
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin
Courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway. – John Wayne
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can’t get out, and those outside don’t want to get in. – Arthur Brisbane
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive. – Brian Clough
It’s not death that men should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
There is positive answer to the grim reality of life. No matter how much the philosophers talk to you, or the psychiatrists, the bottom line is—life has its own agenda. And so we’re all going to wind up in a very bad position one day. Not the same position, but a bad one. – Woody Allen
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“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them has been forgotten.” – Solomon – Eccl. 9:5 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Time is something that cannot be bought. It cannot be wagered with God and it is not in endless supply. Time is simply how you live your life. – Craig Sager
The last message intended in life should be to tell your loved ones goodbye. – Gary Pulliam
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than we do: Men a longer life than dogs do: Dogs a longer life than love does. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
When death to either one shall come – I pray it first be to me. – Robert Bridges
