Death And Peace Quotes

#1. Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

Guru Nanak

#2. We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.

Pope Francis

#3. When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

#4. When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

Lewis Mumford

#5. You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.

E.J. Koh

#6. The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. After all, Pilate permitted the killing of Jesus in order to secure both peace and justice (Roman style) in Judea.

Stanley Hauerwas

#7. Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William C. Bryant

#8. Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

Emily Bleeker

#10. Freedom. That's the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace - peace in death and the peace of slavery." He snorted in amusement. "And I'm not certain about death.

Evan Currie

#11. I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity
Freedom from their Slavery
The Truth in their Lies
Life in their Death
Beauty in their Homicidal Genocide
Peace in the War Whore's evil orgy of Death and Negation
Love amongst the Ruins
Pleasure in my own Pain.

Lydia Lunch

#12. As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#13. No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

Rosemary Altea

#14. Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified ... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

Elizabeth Bowen

#15. I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me.

John Christie

#17. When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

Jack Kornfield

#18. You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

Sam Harris

#19. Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death.

Henrik Ibsen

#20. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were the subjects of Maleldil you would have peace. p. 140

C.S. Lewis

#21. Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Zhang Zai

#22. I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed.

Wilfred Owen

#23. As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

Henri Nouwen

#24. Do not desire a long life or an early death

Radhe Maa

#25. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Vandana Shiva

#26. Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Rabindranath Tagore

#27. The "with God" life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The "without God" life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.

John Ortberg

#28. Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#29. No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

Frederic Bastiat

#30. Death was one sure way to find peace, Rhage thought. And everyone died. Even vampires. Eventually.

J.R. Ward

#31. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.

Charles Studd

#32. The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Edward Young

#33. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

John Of Kronstadt

#34. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think ... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Anne Frank

#35. Then, when I thought it couldn't get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I'm truly in Heaven.

Mandi Lynn

#36. And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Vladimir Nabokov

#37. Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#38. This is life ... Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak
the ones too small or too foolish to fight back
die in agony and blood.

Dan Wells

#39. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Mary Shelley

#40. Wafa Wanaka, our elders say. Not only does this mean that death is the ultimate peace, it also means that we are not to speak ill of the dead. Once a person has crossed over to the real of the spirits, he takes his transgressions with him, and we speak only of the good. - 'Something Nice from London

Petina Gappah

#41. It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

Michael Ende

#42. I put my lilies in front of Sam's plaque. I didn't want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet.

Laurie Colwin

#43. There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.

Hannah Moskowitz

#44. Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

Remi Kanazi

#45. Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace - Angels.

Gary Kinnaman

#46. We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

Mahmoud Abbas

#47. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ROMANS 8:6

Stormie O'martian

#48. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Epicurus

#49. It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

Edgar Cayce

#50. Perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.

Derek Raymond

#51. Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Gautama Buddha

#52. Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death.

Natalya Vorobyova

#53. If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

#54. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#55. All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

David Mamet

#56. And some win peace who spend
The skill of words to sweeten despair
Of finding consolation where
Life has but one dark end.

Walter De La Mare

#57. How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson

Aberjhani

#58. World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.

Martin Luther

#59. To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

Elton John

#60. Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

Bernie Siegel

#61. If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#62. I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

Diet Eman

#63. The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He

Joseph Conrad

#64. Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger

Janet Fitch

#65. Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Steven Erikson

#66. He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Garrett Leigh

#67. I've never feared death before. I've always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do - I wonder

Emalynne Wilder

#68. I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.

Patricia St. John

#69. An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

Voltaire

#70. Kids are supposed to relax on vacations, and enjoy themselves, not sitting in the back seat of a car making peace with death and gripping a rosary because Mom is playing chicken with oncoming cars in the mountains.

Joshua David Swift

#71. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

Howard Zinn

#72. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Sylvia Plath

#73. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

#74. We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

Francis Spellman

#75. The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama

#76. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Kurt Cobain

#77. The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.

Anne Ursu

#78. No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

H.G.Wells

#79. We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

Desmond Tutu

#80. Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Brad Pitt

#81. Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

David Mamet

#82. Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Harold Lindsell

#83. All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

Jim Butcher

#84. There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Daniel Berrigan

#85. I know the moment you died,
Jesus' face was smiling on you,
Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold.
I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now

Lisa Bedrick

#86. And in the sting and misery of his defeat, he began to chant loudly and defiantly the hymn of his threatened idol:
Sredni Vashtar went forth,
His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.
His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.
Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.

Saki

#87. If i were to lose a friend ... then i couldn't die in peace!

Sawada Tsunayoshi

#88. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farrer

#89. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#90. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#91. Some are born for peace and joy
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow

Stevie Smith

#92. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!

Helen Hunt Jackson

#93. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

John Knowles

#94. make peace with death, and accept it as a moving on to a higher level of existence, or, alternately, as a relief from having to put up with any more bullcrap.

Ford Forkum

#95. There is the globe,
The foundation of my bodily existence.
It wears me out with work and duties,
It gives me rest in old age,
It gives me peace in death.
For the on who supplied me with what I needed in life
Will also give me what I need in death.

Zhuangzi

#96. But all life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and your peace of mind

Isaac Asimov

#97. One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

Stephen Craig

#98. Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death.

Michael J. Sullivan

#99. When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

Amanda Lindhout

#100. And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.

Leo Tolstoy