Quotes About Death

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.