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Quotes About Death

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
~ Fanny Kemble
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
~ Frederick Buechner
The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.
~ Frederick Lenz
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
~ Adi Da
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
~ African Spir
Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.
~ Ala Bashir
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
~ Albert Camus
Life and death and rebirth live within me.
~ Alberto Villoldo
I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
~ Alexander Dolgun
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
~ Alexander Pope
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
~ Alexander Pope
One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
~ Andre Luiz Moreira
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
~ Andrew Cuomo
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
~ Anton Chekhov
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
~ Bernard-Joseph Saurin
One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
~ Billy Graham
Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
~ Brit Marling
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
~ John Dryden
A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.
~ John Keble
...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
~ John Shelby Spong
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
~ John Steinbeck