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Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 15:32 (KJV)In context
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 15:51–52 (KJV)In context
Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 15:54–55 (KJV)In context
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The Bible (King James Version)Genesis 2:7 (KJV)In context
- God
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Cynic’s Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil’s Dictionary (1911).
Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)In context
Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)In context
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings1818–1885
As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.
Josh Billings1818–1885Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things (1868), Ch. XXIV, “Perkussion Caps”, p. 89
We love this kind of death for Allah’s cause as much as you like to live.
Osama bin Laden1957–2011Interview conducted by Peter Arnett in Afghanistan in 1997. Transcript of Osama bin Laden [television] interview by Peter Arnett, March 1997, Reported in Pierre-André Taguieff, Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe, translated …
- Religion
She was the people’s princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
Tony Blairborn 1953Statement on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (31 August 1997)
O rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
William Blake1757–1827The Sick Rose (1794)In context
- Love