No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything’s nothingness. ibid.
Our crusade was so stupid, only an idealist could have invented it. ibid. painter
I often wonder why people torment themselves as soon as they can. ibid. jester woman to knight
The most wonderful thing about living is to be dead. Andy Worhol
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details. Andy Warhol
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people. Leviticus 21:1
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother. Leviticus 21:11
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? Numbers 17:12&13
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Numbers 19:11
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. I Samuel 20:3
For we needs must die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person. II Samuel 14:14
He slept with his fathers. I Kings 14:20
There is death in the pot. II Kings 4:40
He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour. I Chronicles 29:28
And if I perish, I perish. Esther 4:16
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job 3:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. Job 7:21
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Job 10:18-22
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he.
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come? Job 14:10-14
Dead things are formed from under the waters and the inhabitants thereof. Job 26:5
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed to the living. Job 30:23
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. Job 34:15
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Job 34:20-22
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? Psalms 6:5
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Psalms 55:15
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Psalms 88:5&10
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. Psalms 89:48
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. Psalms 115:17
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. Proverbs 2:18&19
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Ecclesiastes 4:2&3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:3-5
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Ecclesiastes 9:12
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Isaiah 26:19
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. Isaiah 38:18
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. Hosea 13:14
For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.
For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: