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Quotes About Death

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
~ Philip Larkin
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
~ Tomas Transtromer
Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human...a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.
~ Vali Myers
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
~ Boethius
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.
~ Gregory Corso
Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death
~ Ignacio Ellacuria
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
~ Dante Alighieri
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
~ Edward Albee
There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.
~ Urijah Faber
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
~ Victor Hugo
Life is a near-death experience.
~ George Carlin
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
~ Khalil Gibran
Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
~ Horatio Nelson
We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.
~ Ronald Rolheiser
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
~ Thomas Brooks
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
~ Christy Turlington
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
~ William Butler Yeats
Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
~ William Shatner
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
~ Khalil Gibran
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
~ Moliere
Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.
~ Philip James Bailey
one should be afraid of life, not of death.
~ Marlene Dietrich