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Quotes About Death

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.
~ James Joyce
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
~ James Russell Lowell
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
~ Jane Austen
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
~ Jane Smiley
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.
~ Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
~ Jasper Fforde
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.
~ Jessamyn West
It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.
~ Jessica Sorensen
Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.
~ Joan Halifax
My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.
~ Joan Rivers
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
~ JoAnn Ross
What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.
~ Joe Meno
I would like eternal life. I would like to have the power to choose who lives and dies.
~ Joel McHale
Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.
~ John B. Tabb
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
~ John Berger
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark
~ Stephen Hawking
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
~ Socrates
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman
...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
~ Socrates, Apology