Death Quotes

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

If I die Imma do it reppin, I'll never do it second.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was

Buffalo Bill's defunct

...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

Death is my neighbor now.

Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

Life is a death-defying experience.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

Death devours all lovely things.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.

The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will just make your day.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.