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Quotes About Death

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.
~ Ron White
Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.
~ Robert Lanza
I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
~ William Butler Yeats
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.
~ Emily Dickinson
The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.
~ Nostradamus
I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.
~ Leslie Weatherhead
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
~ Alfred de Musset
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.
~ Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies
Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds.
~ Sri Yukteswar Giri
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
~ Stan Sakai
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.
~ Big Pun
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.
~ Leopold Sedar Senghor
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
~ Unknown
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
~ Gilbert Highet
Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
~ Unknown
Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.
~ Soko Morinaga
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
~ Jacques Lipchitz
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
~ Armando Iannucci
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
~ Khalil Gibran
Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.
~ Unknown
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
~ Arthur Hopkins