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Quotes About Death

I feared death and I loved life. I yearned to live long enough to smoke one more cigarette, drink one more drink, experience seven more seconds of obscene bliss, and then, perhaps, but most likely not, I could die. All
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
It was there that Death woke him every morning, holding the broken shard of a mirror close enough for him to see the fog of his breath clouding his image.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
At last! Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Writing was entering into fog, feeling my way for a route from this world to the unearthly world of words, a route easier to find on some day that others. Lurking on my shoulder as I stumbled was the parrot of a question, asking me how I lived and he died.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
What would I do with all that wealth? Eventually a man just needs six feet of cloth for his shroud.
~ Vikas Swarup
He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.
~ Vikram Chandra
There is no completeness; nothing endures, nothing lives; there is only change, unreasoning unreasonable; only birth and death repeating the same story each time, yet different; why?' The voice laughed--'Why you know already; look in your hands.
~ Vikram Chandra
From the first moment; she said; From the first moment, you forgave everything I was and did. And this, this is nothing, because you will be here always... Remember. Death us nothing.
~ Vikram Chandra
Accept Christianity? Go to eternal rest and life? No. I die. But my life lives on.
~ Vikram Chandra
Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"
~ Unknown
Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have escaped from poverty have no escape from these. What makes life bearable is love-to love, to be loved, and-even after death or parting-to know that you have loved and been loved.
~ Vikram Seth
A person who has not done any good in his life dies like a beast.
~ Unknown
Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.
~ Unknown
Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.
~ Unknown
Death is not a laughing matter, so laugh while you are alive.
~ Unknown
Death is nothing but the body of a dead who has just died.
~ Unknown
Death is the bride of Life and Suicide is the brother of Death.
~ Unknown
He was so poor that he couldn't afford a funeral that's why he is still alive.
~ Unknown
He who is afraid to die, has already died.
~ Unknown
Life, a game; you, a player; earth, a playground; money, your score; God, umpire, death, out of game.
~ Unknown
Many people in the world are killed by supper rather than by the sword.
~ Unknown
No man really knows how to live if he did, he would never die.
~ Unknown
The death of a parent is expected, the death of a child is unexpected, and I expect everyone will die.
~ Unknown