Death Quotes

Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!

It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.

It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.

Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!

Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!

Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God.

Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.