Quotes About Death

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

I sometimes think that never blows so redThe Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;That every Hyacinth the Garden wearsDropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

That inverted Bowl we call The Sky,Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die.

Mrs. Browning's death was rather a relief to me, I must say; no more Aurora Leighs, thank God!

"While you live,Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return."

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

When Ungaretti lost his nine-year-old boy He understood that death is death In an extremely brutal way It was the most terrible event of my life I know what death means I knew it even before But when the best part of me was ripped away I experienced death in myself From that moment on It would strike me as shameless To talk about it That pain will never stop tormenting me

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Bismarck once said, 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Beware of the deadly donky, falling from the sky' you can choose the way you live, my friend, but not the way you die.

If it was true what her mother had once told her, then nothing rang the telephone like death in the middle of the night.

He knew he was going to die but he thought this little thing might provide him with a nothing stool way off in the corner of heaven reserved for fools, people too stupid to come out of the rain. People got to that corner by heaven's back door.

As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.

In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks For washing me cleaner than I have been...

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.