Quotes About Death

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

We die, because we live.

We die of too much life.

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.