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Quotes About Death

The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.
~ Frederick Lenz
At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.
~ Frederick Lenz
The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.
~ Frederick Lenz
The personality structure at the time of death dissolves. You will never be exactly the you you are again.
~ Frederick Lenz
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
~ George Santayana
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.
~ Gerald Heaney
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.
~ Harriet Martineau
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
~ Jack Kerouac
When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
~ James Branch Cabell
Time to die. -Evil Angel
~ James Patterson
You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.
~ John Keats
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
~ John Milton
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.
~ Samuel Beckett
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
~ Zig Ziglar
I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out.
~ Anna M. Aquino
Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!
~ Adhish Mazumder
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
~ Red Skelton