Famous quotes containing the words luke and/or death:
“Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 22:46.
“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)