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Quotes About Death

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves
~ Frederick Lenz
Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.
~ Frederick Lenz
Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.
~ Frederick Lenz
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.
~ Frederick Lenz
To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
~ Freya Stark
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
~ Freya Stark
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Kira: "Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or...No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was...maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei.
~ Fuyumi Soryo
Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.
~ Gary Lineker
As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.
~ Geoffrey Hill
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
~ George Eliot
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
~ George Herbert
Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
~ George Herbert
When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]
~ George Herbert
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
~ George Herbert
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
~ George Orwell
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
~ George P. Bush
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
~ George R. R. Martin
Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
~ George R. R. Martin
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
~ George R. R. Martin
The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.
~ George W. Bush
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.
~ George W. Bush
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.
~ George W. Bush
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
~ George Washington