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Quotes About Death

It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops.
~ Henri Rivière
Death is a part of Life, they are dancing together the dance of infinity in front of the gates of Time. We can live our dreams as we are dreaming our future. Time is the Endless Consciousness
~ Grigoris Deoudis
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
~ Don DeLillo
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
~ Dean Koontz, False Memory
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Nobody ever goes before their time.
~ Joyce Rachelle
Time: her heart wretched. What a useless thing, her mind growled. Only humans would be so arrogant and so stupid as to count down their own deaths.
~ Hunter Wilde, Erebus
However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?
~ Michelle Harrison, One Wish
There is always time to die, but never time to live.
~ Anthony Liccione
We will grow old and die, eventually.Then I'll see you in Heaven.
~ Barbara Avon, STATIC
Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.
~ Tegan Quin
If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?It's bad day in bad time, I can tell this for sure!
~ Deyth Banger
Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.
~ Gleick James
I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.
~ M.K. Alexander
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
~ Charlie Pierce
I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
~ Joan Baez
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
~ Elliott Abrams
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
~ Aaron Swartz
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.
~ Christy Clark
Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.
~ J. Sidlow Baxter
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
~ George Carlin