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Quotes About Death

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
~ Isaac Watts
Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.
~ Jackie French
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
~ James Russell Lowell
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is infamy to die, and not be missed.
~ Carlos Wilcox
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
~ Confucius
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
~ Dan Quayle
Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
~ David Gemmell
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
~ Dean Koontz
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.
~ Delmore Schwartz
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
~ Eckhart Tolle
A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.
~ Eckhart Tolle
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
~ Edward Abbey
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
~ Edwin Arnold
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth.
~ Elizabeth A. Johnson
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
~ Emilie Autumn