Quotes About Death

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?