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Quotes About Death

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
~ Ed Koch
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
~ Edmund Spenser
To live in God is death; to die in God is life.
~ Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.
~ Edward Young
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
~ Edward Young
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
~ Edward Young
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
~ Edwin Arnold
War can't give life, it can only take it away.
~ Edwin Starr
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
~ Elie Wiesel
Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.
~ Elizabeth Noble
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
~ Ellen Glasgow
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
~ Emily Dickinson
How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.
~ Emma Goldman
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
~ Erica Jong
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
~ Euripides
There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
~ Evelyn Anthony
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit
~ Ezra Pound
The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
~ Felix Rohatyn
You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
~ Frederick Lenz
For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.
~ Mehdi Dibaj
At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan