Quotes About Death

Sorry, but looks like I'm dead. *Grin*

Some phrases just have a nice ring to them, y'know? Like, "The water sprite goes flowing down the river." Or, "Ahh, spring." "It's totally autumn." "Drop dead." "Stiff roundhouse kick." Or, "Thick soy broth." See?

But death is what completes a man. —Kaido

Corpses may not speak, but they still carry a wealth of information.

Reputasi seseorang tak pernah ditetapkan sebelum dia mati." (Araki Murashige - Taiko)

There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

Alive, her body belonged to him; dead, she was his ghost.

What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached. I was in it now with all the women in the world. I walked home glad. I will die, I thought with a bounce in my step. I'm whole. Not whole like anyone else, but whole like me. Painful, but simple. It was very simple now.

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

Remember this: the only way to live is to live—and death is always, always, part of living. We die over and over. Oh, the big death comes but once, but a thousand deaths arrive with every turn of the seasons—the death of a day or a lover, of a friend or a dream, death piled upon death. The slow sundering of years parts us even from who we once were and from the memories which parented us. Live anyway.

With those thousand deaths come a thousand births. Ten thousand, if we're alive enough to notice. Drink whatever comes to you, death or life or both together, drink it down, whether the draught be sweet or bitter. If you refuse the one, you won't be able to taste the other.

The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different when they're gone.

He died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o'clock in the morning, after partaking of the holy communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign [Jan 28].

Love that is physical, death will destroy. But love that is spiritual, death can never destroy.

We should follow our own humour more in dying than in any other business.

May you live forever, and may I never die.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320

It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal problems, or in the small details of daily living, he is, at the same time, losing interest in other people; worse, he is losing his ties to life. From that it is an easy step to losing interest in the world and in life itself. That is the beginning of death.