Quotes About Death

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

Death can be more exciting than life.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.