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Quotes About Death

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.
~ Kevin Focke
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
~ William Faulkner
By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.
~ Swami Dhyan Giten
The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep).
~ Rohan Nath
The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.
~ Allie Burke, Paper Souls
In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.
~ Emily Thorne
GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.
~ Kennedy Ryan, My Soul to Keep
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
~ Kathryn Orzech, Asylum
Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.
~ Anthony Liccione
Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve
~ Davis Carlson
O fairest of creation! last and bestOf all God's works! creature in whom excell'dWhatever can to sight or thought be form'd,Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,Defac'd, deflower'd, and now to Death devote?
~ John Milton
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
~ John Milton
Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.
~ John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
~ John Milton
To live a life half dead, a living death.
~ John Milton
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden.
~ John Milton
Death… on his pale horse.
~ John Milton
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
~ John Muir
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
~ John Muir
George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
~ John O'Hara
You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.
~ John Osborne
Anyone who's never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. For twelve months, I watched my father dying - when I was ten years old.
~ John Osborne
I love my mother. My mother loves my dad. Those two facts are undeniable. I want my father to live. I want him to fight to live as long as he can. My mother wants to let him pass. She does not want him suffering anymore. She says that I am not there in the middle of the night at home, when he begs her to let him die. I say that he should not be taking the medicine that the doctor is prescribing, that it made Mike Tyson want to eat his opponents young.
~ John Passaro