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Quotes About Death

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
~ Samuel Beckett
Death is just life's next big adventure.
~ J. K. Rowling
We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
~ Zhuangzi
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
~ Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
~ Carter Burwell
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
~ Mary Shelley
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
~ David Lynch
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
~ Damien Hirst
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
~ Thomas Browne
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
~ Graham Greene
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
~ Boris Pasternak
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
~ Joss Whedon
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
~ Angela Carter
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
~ Mason Cooley
The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.
~ Carl Sandburg
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
~ Charles Dickens
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
~ David Platt
All life is dying life – including the life of God.
~ Don Cupitt
In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
~ George Orwell