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Quotes About Death

I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.
~ Bill Hicks
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
~ Billy Graham
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.
~ Charles Spurgeon
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death
~ Dean Cavanagh
Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
~ Doris Roberts
The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
~ Duane Chapman
...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.
~ Edgar Mitchell
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
~ Euripides
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
~ Franz Kafka
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.
~ Misty Upham
I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.
~ Pamela Smart
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
~ Pearl S. Buck
A good death does honour to a whole life.
~ Petrarch
My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
~ Quincy Jones
We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
~ Rachel Held Evans
The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.
~ Rajneesh
The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.
~ Richard Sibbes
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Is death that which gives meaning to life?
~ Donald Barthelme
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
~ Erasmus Darwin