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Quotes About Death

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For love is as strong as death.
~ Cassandra Clare
That is our 'pointed task. Love & die.
~ John Berryman
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
~ Anais Nin
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
~ Arthur Schnitzler
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
~ John Gay
Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.
~ Trevor Hall
If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.
~ Herbert McCabe
It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.
~ Horatius Bonar
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
~ Ellen Hopkins
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.
~ Barnabas
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
~ David Rakoff
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
~ Hermann Hesse
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.
~ John Betjeman
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
~ J. C. Ryle
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
~ William Penn
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. But this is how it was for the two of them. Love and hate. Life and death. Joy and anguish.
~ Melissa de la Cruz