Quotes About Death

Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

It's pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

age is nothing but death that is conscious.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.