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Quotes About Death

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.
~ Kayko Tamaki
No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish.
~ Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Saige, Mother is . . ." I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. "Mother is dead.
~ Jada Berglund, Saige
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
O starry night, This is how I want to die
~ Anne Sexton
People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
~ Dan Farmer
I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
~ Vinnie Paz
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
~ Steve Jobs
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
~ Mort Sahl
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
~ A. A. Gill
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
~ Arthur Brisbane
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
~ Keith Richards
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
~ B. B. King
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
~ Jackie Pullinger
I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death
~ Ivan Illich
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
~ Richard Pryor
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
~ George Bernard Shaw
My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"
~ Buddy Hackett
Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!
~ George Harrison
The soul of man is the highest product of God's creative handiwork. Now, after God has spent untold time in creating man and endowing him with a soul, which is the reflection of his image, is it reasonable to suppose that man lives here on earth for a brief span and then is extinguished by death? That the soul perishes with the physical body? That it existed in vain?
~ Stephen Birmingham
Agassiz explained his reasons for doubting the creative power of natural selection. Small-scale variations, he argued, had never produced a "specific difference" (i.e., a difference in species). Meanwhile, large-scale variations, whether achieved gradually or suddenly, inevitably resulted in sterility or death. As he put it, "It is a matter of fact that extreme variations finally degenerate or become sterile; like monstrosities they die out.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
because although she is very pretty, she is also very dead, and dead trumps pretty much everything.
~ Stephen Carpenter
Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It's going back home.... We unzip the body, so to speak, let it fall to the ground and walk through the next door clothed in our spiritual form, which was always there inside the physical body.
~ Stephen Christopher Dennis
God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.
~ Stephen Coonts