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Quotes About Death

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.
~ Ronald Rolheiser
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
~ Rick Bragg
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
~ Jeanne Moreau
As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.
~ Benjamin Carson
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
~ Ian Fleming
Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.
~ William Ernest Henley
Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!
~ Laird Hamilton
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
~ Tim Kaine
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
~ Jack London
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
~ Rumi
You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.
~ Charles Bukowski
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
~ Matsuo Basho
Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.
~ Ralph Steadman
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
~ Curtis Jackson
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.
~ Terrell Owens
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
~ Laozi
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
~ Bodhidharma
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
~ Holly Lisle
White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
~ Kenya Hara
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
~ Paracelsus