Quotes About Death

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.