Quotes About Death

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Homosexuality is death, and I choose life.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

You should have died when I killed you.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.