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Quotes About Death

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
~ Tennessee Williams
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
~ Ayn Rand
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
~ Robert Benchley
He who fears death enjoys not life.
~ Spanish proverb
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
~ Confucius
Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.
~ Unknown
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies.
~ John Cleese
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~ Unknown
Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal.
~ Unknown
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
~ Oscar Wilde
All the hours wound you, the last one kills.
~ Latin proverb
Death is life in reverse.
~ Angelina Jolie
Im sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.
~ Jorja Fox
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
~ Edvard Munch
Do not fear death... only the unlived life. You don't have to live forever; You just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Thank God life outlives death.
~ Harriet McBryde Johnson
You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.
~ Morrie Schwartz
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
~ Alexandre Dumas
LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.
~ Aaron Howard
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
~ Jim Morrison
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
~ Lao Tzu