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Quotes About Death

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
~ Charles Bukowski
to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.
~ Charles Bukowski
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
~ Colleen McCullough
The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.
~ Edgar Cayce
To live a life half dead, a living death.
~ John Milton
Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.
~ Joseph Stalin
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
~ Karl Barth
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
~ Khalil Gibran
It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae
~ Larry McMurtry
Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.
~ Leonardo Boff
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
~ Louise Erdrich
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
~ Marya Mannes
You won't understand life and death until you're ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
~ Brad Warner
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
~ Ala Bashir
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
~ Mark Twain
Death is strong, but Life is stronger.
~ Phillips Brooks
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
~ Shane Claiborne
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
~ William Faulkner
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
~ Stendhal
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
~ Tom Hanks
On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
~ Tom Waits