Quotes About Death

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

Except that's the thing about dying, or experiencing death. It happens, but it's never over.

It's so strange how the moment of your birth is this fixed point in time, but the hour of your death is always changing based on what you eat for dinner, or where you cross the street, or who you trust when you're alone in the dark woods. But I like to think of all those little moments that add up to the final one, because it meant that my death would be my own, the result of my life, and not just something that happened to me.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up at the sky...I don't know why I was thinking about that, but it made a lot of sense right then that stars glow so brightly in their instant of death...

Y lo malo de tratar de burlar a la muerte es que siempre tienes las de perder.

Oh God, who died?" Nick deadpanned. He was joking, but he wasn't. "One day that's not going to be funny," Charlie warned.

My tour guide hadn't ditched me. He'd died.

The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death was a whore who did not care who she drew into her darkness, veteran knight or callow bachelor.

God is dead." Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." God

The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.

By the time Justinian died in 565, aged over eighty

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

After the death of Commodus in 192 CE, civil war and empire-wide chaos lasted

A mere forty years after the death of Basil II, Byzantium found itself faced with new and aggressive enemies on all sides during the 1060s:

Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

nous risquons maintenant de mourir par excès de moyen et par absence de fins.

Being Dead means very light housekeeping

Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

Grief. The state of mind brought about when love, having lost to death, learns to breathe beside it. See also love.

Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him."…So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. Christ revealed that the disciples should have their faith strengthened by these events.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.