Quotes About Death

Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life.

Oh! Death! You are the savior of life.You are the shelter of life.You are the destination of life.You are the beginning and the end of life.You are the center of the circle of life.

Death is the defined destination at the end of our life where we transform and transcend ourselves for eternal life.

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.