Quotes About Death

Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Who knows what death is? Maybe life is nothing more than a beam of light passing slowly over our changing faces.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Our life is made by the death of others.