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Quotes About Death

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.
~ Robert Fulghum
I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right
~ Lupe Fiasco
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.
~ Jack Kevorkian
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson
That which we call death, is but the other side of life.
~ William Walker Atkinson
... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
~ Amin Maalouf, Orígenes
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
~ Erin Hunter
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
~ Harmony Korine
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
~ Uesugi Kenshin
Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.
~ George Carlin
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov
Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.
~ Takeda Shingen
It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
~ Tim McIlrath
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.
~ Giorgio Agamben
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
~ Bette Midler
Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.
~ Sam Kinison
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
~ Steve Jobs
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
~ Ajahn Chah
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
~ Wilfred Bion