Life Over Death Quotes

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but will serve life which is stronger than death, and love which is stronger than hatred.

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death!

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.