Daniel Webster Quotes

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

Life will go on - until it doesn't.