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Quotes About Death

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.
~ Dan Wells
Life and death do not wait for legal action.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.
~ Darren Shan
I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
~ Dave Sitek
Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.
~ David Cameron
Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.
~ David Henry Hwang
Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.
~ David Letterman
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?
~ David Mazzucchelli
The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
~ Dean Koontz
Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.
~ Denise Levertov
Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.
~ Derek Landy
As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
~ Diane Ackerman
As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Life, the permission to know death.
~ Djuna Barnes
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
~ Don DeLillo
These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.
~ Donald Trump
Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
~ Dorothy Gilman
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)
~ e. e. cummings