Quotes About Death

Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.

Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.

The meaning of life is to die living it.

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we've actually lived in the first place?

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

The price of living seems to always be death.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!""We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death

It's safer for you to stay with the others, ' he said.Safer? He didn't realize.I was already dead.

Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.