Quotes About Death

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.