Quotes About Death

There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

It is death that gives life its meaning.

Darlene died doing what she loved, which was trying to stay alive.

but when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

At that moment, he knew what death really meant and he was afraid. There was no adventure in it, no sense of purpose or choice, nothing but a sickening disgust and shock. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. Nothing was worth such terrible slaughter—nothing.

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.

Death was the twin brother of life and the more interesting of the two. It was secretive, unknown, mysterious. It was inevitable and forever when it came. It was a dark, infinitely chambered fortress waiting to be explored. Most entered only once and then only because they had no choice.

Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. Maybe that was the way everyone saw him. But Annie's death had not created the condition; it had merely emphasized it.

La vida es el momento de tomar decisiones, Walker Boh. Y la muerte es el momento de recordar lo que hemos decidido.

This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

while Man worked all those years to discover the secrets of life, he never managed to escape his overpowering fascination for death.

Life was uncertain. Death was forever.

Surviving it provided validation of who and what they were, of their ability to confront and defeat the death that was constantly stalking them.

To be outside any situation whatsoever is known as being dead.

A comédia representa uma ameaça para o poder soberano não só por causa do seu pendor anárquico, mas também por fazer pouco de questões tão importantes como o sofrimento e a morte, diminuindo assim a força de algumas das sanções judiciais que as classes governantes tendem a ter na manga. Ela pode fomentar uma despreocupação temerária que afrouxa o poder da autoridade.

That the death of God involves the death of Man, along with the birth of a new form of humanity, is orthodox Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.

To call ourselves historical beings is to say that we are constitutively capable of self-transcendence, becoming at one with ourselves only in death.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. "Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life.

How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.