Death Quotes

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

Unsubstantial Death is amorous.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I think you die the way you live.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.

A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

With every death, a world is disappearing.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

You're murderers, " she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.