Quotes About Death

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.