Quotes About Death

Otherwise we attend to our poets when they are alive—to hear them, to praise them, to despise them, to use them. Death usually removes them. I expect my immortality to expire six minutes after my funeral. Literature is a zero-sum game.

Generation after generation, my family's old people sat at this window to watch the year. There are beds in this house where babies were born, where the same babies died eighty years later.

The girl whispered, "I'm dying, aren't I?" "I should hope so," I said. "If not, we'll have to send my associate back to marksmanship school.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.