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Quotes About Death

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
~ Joseph Campbell
God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.
~ Joseph Fielding Smith
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
~ Katy Butler
Man is truly born the time he dies.
~ Kedar Joshi
I would say my life experience has involved dealing with people very close to me that have died.
~ Kelvin Ogilvie
What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?
~ Kirsten Miller
There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.
~ Kristin Cashore
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Life is going forth; death is returning home.
~ Laozi
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.
~ Laozi
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
~ Laozi
Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.
~ Laurel Lea
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
~ Lauren Oliver
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.
~ Leo Gordon
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.
~ Lesley Stahl
Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.
~ Lord Byron
My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.
~ Louis Farrakhan
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
~ Lucretius
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.
~ Lucretius
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein