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Quotes About Death

D. Laing once said there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds. Put me down as two for three.
~ Michael Pollan
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
~ Luc de Clapiers
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
~ Buddy Hackett
We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.
~ Jim Caviezel
And my little sister died when she was 16.
~ Jeremy London
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
~ Jessica Mitford
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
~ Barbara Bush
My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
~ Jimmy Carter
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
~ Daniel Boone
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
~ Keith Richards
Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
~ Saffron Aldridge
Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
~ Angelina Jolie
If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death.
~ Dov Davidoff
A love that dies has never lived.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Dad, would the love end just because a person dies?
~ Park Soo Jin
Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Burned
What happens if a car comes? We die.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
~ Thomas Mann
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?
~ Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
~ John Ortberg