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Quotes About Death

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
~ John Bunyan
Death is Life's high meed.
~ John Keats
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
~ Julia Child
There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
~ Lucian
Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
~ Madonna Ciccone
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
~ Seneca the Younger
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
~ Solon
Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death.
~ Stephen Nichols
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
~ Angelina Jolie
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
~ John Banville, The Sea
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
~ Paul Theroux
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
~ T.E. Lawrence
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
~ Brent Weeks
Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
~ Amish Tripathi
Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
~ Saint Augustine
Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.
~ Samuel Beckett
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
~ Seneca the Younger
War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
~ Sun Tzu
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
~ Tupac Shakur
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
~ Will Durant
There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow