Top 27 Quotes About The Certainty Of Death
#1. I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
Shekhar Kapur
#2. Here was world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. The patterns of life and deaths ...
Thomas Pynchon
#3. The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality
Frederick Lenz
#5. T nightfall, at
the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose
out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred
the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#7. My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty.
Eugenie De Guerin
#8. Lord Jesus, we praise you for your victory over death and your grace. In our moments of doubt and worry, remind us of the certainty of the resurrection, until we see it with our own eyes. Amen.
Northwestern Publishing House
#9. Fear accompanies only the possibility of death. Calm ushers its certainty.
Scott McEwen
#11. Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Susan Abulhawa
#12. When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past - and about the future only as far as that it is death.
Erich Fromm
#13. You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.
Jeanne Safer
#14. That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
Jesse Ball
#15. The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Mark Twain
#16. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
James Thurber
#17. The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
Emanuel Lasker
#18. But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.
Scott Hastie
#20. I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.
Billy Graham
#21. The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
Edgar Morin
#22. All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
Johnny Rich
#23. Here we are, condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
Billy Graham
#25. I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.
Greg Egan
#26. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof
#27. A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it.
Robin LaFevers
