Quotes About Good Death

#1. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Winston Churchill

#2. Now let's get upstairs and fight, or all the good Death Eaters'll be taken.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Eva, stop,' he moaned. 'A kiss from me could kill you...'
'Then it would be a good death,' I breathed, taking his face in my hands. And when our lips met, I knew that wherever this love took me, it was a place I wanted to go.

Dee Shulman

#5. In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

Chinua Achebe

#6. A good death does honour to a whole life.

Petrarch

#7. I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

Jared Harris

#8. There's no such thing as a good death ... It's just a dull, stupid thing we all have to do eventually. To ask meaning of it is to ask meaning of a shadow.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#9. Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

Hermione Lee

#10. Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

Cicely Saunders

#11. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil ... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Moses

#12. Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.

Atul Gawande

#13. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

#14. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

William Sloane Coffin

#15. Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine

#16. It is good death
That puts an end to evil death and dies.

Wallace Stevens

#17. Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

Larry Watson

#18. The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

John Shelby Spong

#19. A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#20. It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Emilia Fox

#21. How much of the "good death" is for the person dying and how much for the person helping him?

Sherwin B. Nuland

#22. The final desire of any warrior is a good death.

Lance Conrad

#23. You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

Alexandra Ivy

#24. Say nothing but good of the dead.

Solon

#25. Your destiny, forever kindred,
United you in life and death
Despite the origins that hindered
You from your loving in good faith.

Tatyana K. Varenko

#26. The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Fanny Kemble

#27. Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good.

Victoria Schwab

#28. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!

Francis Quarles

#29. Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.

Larry McMurtry

#30. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.

Joe Meno

#31. There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Lancelot Andrewes

#32. I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't breathe. I was splattered with blood. I'd never beaten someone to death before. It had felt good.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#33. I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#34. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

Horace Mann

#35. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.

Anonymous

#36. I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Gary Shteyngart

#37. A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Phil Elvrum

#38. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

Richard Curtis

#39. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#40. If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

Glenn Beck

#41. Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

#42. When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak.

Jonathan Maberry

#43. Simon Gathercole argues that both Paul and the Gospel writers considered the good news to have three basic elements: the identity of Jesus as Son of God and Messiah, the death of Jesus for sin and justification, and the establishment of the reign of God and the new creation.12

Timothy Keller

#44. Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

Jenny Downham

#45. There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Slade Combs

#46. *Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only look good for a day, or, twelve.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#47. The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

Ed Sheeran

#48. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.

Sander Levin

#49. Good taste is the death of art

Truman Capote

#50. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

#51. Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What kind of world is it that will not allow me to be myself, and is it really good for me to be there? What part of me will die a slow death if I stay?

Joan D. Chittister

#52. We've had too much death and disappointment, so we don't know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.

Cora Carmack

#53. Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

Frederic Ozanam

#54. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Ayn Rand

#55. Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.

Michael Moorcock

#56. The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

Eddie Vedder

#57. Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody's doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.

Neal Shusterman

#58. Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

Richard Smalley

#59. But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Sarah J. Maas

#60. Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

Idries Shah

#61. It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

Forrest Carter

#62. ...death isn't bad. It's not. It's just that life is so good. So damn good that you just wanna hold on to it, and everybody in it. But we can't. But what we can do, is appreciate it more. Y'know, smell the flowers.

Jason Reynolds

#63. Good and evil," Nick said. "Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale - move one way, the scale tips to the left, but move the other, and it swings around to the right.

Abramelin Keldor

#64. At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

Cate Tiernan

#65. Good-bye, till we meet then
I embrace you warmly, warmly, with many kisses. Yours till death,

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#66. Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

John Ortberg

#67. I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.

Frederick Lenz

#68. So we're talking into death? (Alix)
Gods, I hope not. I don't have on the right boots for it. These are only good for a mild ass-whipping. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#69. Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.

Emma Scott

#70. The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for.

Frederick Lenz

#71. More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

John Darnielle

#72. Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

Julia Child

#73. In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#74. When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

Richard Simmons

#75. You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

Nic Pizzolatto

#76. Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

Faith Hunter

#77. Love of fate?" "It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Kate Atkinson

#78. In every person there is a soul, In every soul there is intelligence, In every intelligence there is thought, In every thought there is either good or evil, In every evil there is death, In every good there is life, In every life there is God.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#79. Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Don DeLillo

#80. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

Ray Toro

#81. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Eben Alexander

#82. Believe that you are someone worth saving.

Slade Combs

#83. Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

Blaise Pascal

#84. Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.

Barry Eisler

#85. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Horatio Nelson

#86. Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.

Raymond E. Feist

#87. The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

Craig Benzine

#88. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Will Durant

#89. It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

Samuel Johnson

#90. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able - be good. 18.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.

Michael Reisman

#92. Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

Confucius

#93. Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

David Bellavia

#94. The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now?

Ray Bradbury

#95. Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long ...

V.C. Andrews

#96. Underneath this little stone
Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
No other archer was so good -
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
Will England never see again.

Roger Lancelyn Green

#97. A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Saul Bellow

#98. It is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

Thomas Merton

#99. In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

Louise Erdrich

#100. Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

Justina Chen