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Quotes About Death

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
~ James Anthony Froude
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
~ John Boyes
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
~ Mortimer Collins
God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
~ Nevada Barr
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
~ Brad Pitt
The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
~ Paulo Coelho
The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
~ Edward Young
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
~ Francis Spellman
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
~ Elton John
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
~ William Saroyan
New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no such thing as inner peace there is only nervousness and death.
~ Fran Lebowitz
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~ Omar N. Bradley
One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.
~ Stephen Craig, The Last Step
Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.
~ Shinmon Aoki
In this world, you have to die to find peace.
~ D.J. Molles, Aftermath
Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
~ J. K. Rowling
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.
~ Randall Jarrell
Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really that the person... (Pet Semetary 1 by Stephen King)
~ Deyth Banger