Quotes About Conquering Death

#1. You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there's always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#2. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. Your ego is a scary beast. It should have its own name. We could call it something frightening like Darth Yummy.

Nichole Chase

#4. For Beatrice, when we first met,
I was lonely, and you were pretty.
Now I am pretty lonely.

Lemony Snicket

#5. It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Taylor Hackford

#6. Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Eric Metaxas

#7. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

Baal Shem Tov

#8. I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Jackson Browne

#9. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Takenaka Shigekata

#10. Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Julian Bond

#11. We try to explain how we feel, but there aren't always the right words or the words we have fail. But with music, you can hear a piece and say, Yeah, that's it. That's exactly how I feel.

Carrie Arcos

#12. For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Tom McMillan

#13. Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,
Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,
Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down,
Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power
So scatter and consume them in his rage,
That not a man should live to rue their fall.

Christopher Marlowe

#14. Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

Petr Skrabanek

#15. Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Hill Collins

#17. I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate ...

George Eliot

#18. I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.

Anna White