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Quotes About Death

What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.
~ Unknown
We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Just when you think you're in the cat-bird's seat, the Angel of Death calls "dibs" on shotgun.
~ Unknown
They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
~ Louis L'Amour
I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering
~ Raheem Kirlew
For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.
~ Unknown
The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.
~ Unknown
Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I have faced death this night, and I have called his bluff.
~ Lucien LaCroix
It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.
~ Unknown
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.
~ James Rozoff
If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!
~ Unknown
Where death follows, there's life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you'll eventually find the light.
~ Unknown
Only the dead has seen th end of war
~ Unknown
Mais, dans la mort d'un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can't make me do nothing but die!
~ Richard Wright, Native Son
Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
~ Unknown
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.
~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.
~ Susan Sontag
She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
~ Unknown
Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.
~ Unknown
why we fear death... life is more scary.....
~ Unknown