Preceded In Death Quotes & Sayings

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. — Charles Caleb Colton

Carter is the only President to ever release his actual IQ from a standardized test; it was 176. That is higher than either Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, and is well into the genius level. — Robert Chamberlain

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone. — Andy Stanley

Young shoots contain enough cyanide to kill a horse. Death is mercifully swift, usually caused by cardiac arrest or respiratory failure and preceded by only a few hours of anxiety, convulsions, and staggering about. — Amy Stewart

It often happened that after death faces become softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty, that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering. — Bram Stoker

Marketing is the process of creating customers, and customers are the lifeblood of your business. — Timi Nadela

I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over. — Ruta Sepetys

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. — Ernest Thompson Seton

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence ... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body. — Annie Besant

Well," Han said with a sigh, "we've gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That's progress of a sort. — James S.A. Corey

I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just ... sit. And I don't gain a thing. — Chanel Iman

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being. — Frederic Henry Hedge

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids. — David Guterson

Ten strong things were created in the world (of which the one that comes after is stronger than that which preceded). A mountain is strong, but iron can hew it in pieces; the fire weakens the iron; the water quenches the fire; the clouds carry off the water; the wind disperses the clouds; the living body resists the wind; fear enervates the body; wine abolishes fear; sleep overcomes wine, and death is stronger than all together; yet it is written (Prov. x. 2), "And alms delivereth from death" (the original word has two meanings, righteousness and alms). Bava Bathra, fol. 10, col. 1. — Maurice H. Harris

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams. — Peter D. Kramer

And when he [Jesus] had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" (Matt. 10:1, — Andrew Wommack

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path. — Shaun McNiff