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Quotes About Death

The most basic elements of our life—our birth and our death—are out of our control. People spend a lifetime trying to control these things but it's impossible.
~ Darien Gee, Friendship Bread
Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.
~ Aditya Ajmera
Death was here. The showdown wouldn't occur with the darkness of Halloween. It had come at dawn, and it bathed them in blood.
~ Unknown
I am the wind...I am death.
~ Unknown
A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)
~ Unknown
those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all
~ Francois Lelord
People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
~ Unknown
Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand—they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
~ Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts, " Cas said. "You don't screw with death, yo!
~ Jennifer Rush, Reborn
The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.
~ David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous
There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.
~ Unknown
You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217
~ Unknown
No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.
~ Roberto Bolaño, 2666
But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...
~ Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark
You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?"She had no answer.
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?
~ Alfred de Musset
Wit defies deathbut death defines wit
~ Unknown
To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.
~ Steven Magee
Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God
~ Unknown
...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.
~ Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".
~ Unknown
To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
~ Euripides
Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.
~ Herodotus
It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.
~ Unknown