Quotes About Death

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

Death to life is crown or shame.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Life is scarier than death.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.