Quotes About Death

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

In greatness, life and death merge.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

I'd never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Life is the offspring of death.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.