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Quotes About Death

No one here gets out alive.
~ Jim Morrison
Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
~ Ahmad ibn Ajiba
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
~ Andrew Greeley
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
~ Laurence Sterne
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.
~ Riane Eisler
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
~ Walt Whitman
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
~ Gautama Buddha
How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.
~ James Kirk
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
~ William Blake
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
~ David Gerrold
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
~ Dan Savage
Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.
~ Rajneesh
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
~ Emily Bronte
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
~ Georg Hermes
In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.
~ Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.
~ Theodor Fontane
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.
~ Carl Jung
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
~ Sigmund Freud
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
~ Steve Jobs
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
~ Martha Beck