Quotes About Death

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange and new to you.

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.

No juegues con los muertos y no acaricies sus rostros. No te rías de ellos y no los llores; olvídalos. No te fíes de las cosas pasadas. No te pongas a construir bellos ataúdes para los momentos pasados: piensa en matar los momentos que vendrán. Desconfía de todos los cadáveres. No abraces a los muertos: pues ahogan a los vivos.

I thought it was a novel." "It is." "What's it about??" "You'll have to buy it to find out, but it's got everything: love, death and an amusing dog." "This one's got a recipe for apple crumble," I said. "Don't you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?" he said.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

Any life, bad as it may be, is better than nothing. Better than terror and that frozen fear of death. It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

El rabino Kushner escribió en uno de sus libros: "Yo creo que no es a morir a lo que teme la gente. Algo más desconcertante y trágico que la muerte nos asusta. Tenemos miedo de no haber vivido nunca, de llegar al final de nuestros días sintiendo que nunca estuvimos realmente vivos, que nunca entendimos de lo que realmente trata la vida... No

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.

I have examined you long enough. I have read your heart, and written out your secrets! You are but a shell-the shell that holds a corrupted and sinful heart. He shall live; you shall die!

Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.