Life & Death Sayings

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Sleep is the absence of waking, just as death is the absence of life.

Better to die with honor than to live in shame.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

My empire is built on blood and iron, but sustained by loyalty and discipline.

What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave, Allone, withouten any compaignye.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Never did I see a man who was more eager to make gifts and to shed blood.

Those who carry light do not fear wandering in the dark.

Light does not argue with darkness; it simply exists gently.

If you don't know what the dark is, you don't know what light is.

The pearl is found in the shell, and the shell is in the sea. But the pearl is not the shell, nor the sea.

The night is dark, but the stars are bright. The world is dark, but the truth is bright.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light.

I could have been a great immortal, but I loved wine too much.