Quotes About Death

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a sense of love, and that would be great if that were there when we died.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death