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Quotes About Death

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
~ Guy de Maupassant
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
~ Jack Kornfield
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
~ Andre Malraux
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~ Chanakya
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
~ John Fletcher
The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
~ Saib Tabrizi
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
~ Thomas Browne
By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".
~ Yasumasa Morimura
Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.
~ Lisa Bonet
Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite
~ Sage Francis
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
~ Terry Pratchett
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
~ Toni Morrison
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
~ Paul the Apostle
The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.
~ Phineas Quimby
By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.
~ R. C. Sproul
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
~ Richard Feynman
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
~ Spike Milligan
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
~ T.S. Eliot
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
~ Oliver Gaspirtz
My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
~ Bear Grylls