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Quotes About Death

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
~ W. G. Sebald
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
~ W. C. Fields
I'm always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.
~ Damon Dash
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ e. e. cummings
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
~ Muriel Spark
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
~ Socrates
Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.
~ Yoshida Shoin
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
~ Alfred Doblin
Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
~ Antoine Bechamp
Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodóvar.
~ Antonio Banderas
Death is the gate of life.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
~ Charles Bukowski
Death must be easy cuz life is hard
~ Curtis Jackson
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
~ Edward Abbey
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.
~ John James Audubon
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
~ Karen Armstrong
What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.
~ Martin Heidegger
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
~ Mary Stewart
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
~ Ruth Gordon
Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
~ Stevie Smith
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
~ Sue Grafton