Quotes About Death

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.