Quotes About Death

Political elections are not life and death.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

Life is the longest death in California.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

Death is the return to the beginning of the same life with the possibility of repeating it again.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.