Quotes About Death

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

I'm dying, but so are you

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

To be immortal and then die

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.