Quotes About Death

We all owe death a life.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

Death to the killers, bringing light to life.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

Until death it is all life.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.