Quotes About Death

She died that night. Her last breath took her soul; I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she breathed out and then she had no more needs. She was released from her body and, being released, she continued her journey elsewhere. High in the heavens where soul material gathers and plays out all our dreams and joys.

I am not one who believes that killing yourself is necessarily a coward's way out. It is my belief that a body'd have to be in a lot of pain in order to think a death the likes of this was preferable to breathing in the air of one more morning." -From "Matthew in the Morning

Turner was pushed farther and farther back, wondering why they didn't see that Mrs. Cobb would have hated all the fuss, that they were shoving furniture from where it was supposed to be, that they had bunched up the runner in the front hall. Maybe this was what death was - when no one cared about one dang thing you had cared about.

A friend in southern Utah has for years managed great comfort from the thought that on his own death and cremation, the molecules of his body will be released, taken up by hundreds of other life forms. "That's immortality, brother!

I have come to believe that the long-dead were no wiser than we, even when they were alive, and their being dead has added no luster to their wisdom.

En la tarde de ese día, en medio del tumulto causado por la tormenta, en una pequeña casa en la isla de Xaltocan, nací de mi madre para empezar a morir.

We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.

It can be shattering when these creatures die.

The word euthanasia literally means "good death.

Animals enrich our lives in countless ways, with their playfulness, their tranquility, their constancy, and their love. If they can help us remember that death is not our enemy but simply one more moment in the world's endless process of becoming, dissolution, and renewal, they will have imparted a final gift.

But regrettably, whether through a failure of nerve, or out of false optimism — hoping for improvement in an incurable condition — many people end up making the process of dying more protracted than it has to be.

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however "humane"—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Good speech quells chaos and produces joy and life; bad speech produces chaos and leads to despair and death." (Dan Allender & Tremper Longman)

That old love was dead. But it represented my commitment before the Lord — the One before whom I said, 'Till death do us part.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

In the evolutionary worldview, time and death work together to produce upward progress; in the biblical worldview, death came only after Adam's sin corrupted God's perfect creation, and sin and death work together to produce downward decline — until Christ comes again, conquering sin and death and making all things new!

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.   DOWNTOWN

Firearms are the leading source of death among black children under the age of nineteen and the second leading cause of death for all children of the same age group, after car accidents.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

I'll be dead, I'll not care either way. What matters is how I die.' 'And how will that be?' 'Fighting for freedom and the lives of my companions, bana-madam.

in the last two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War. By contrast, in all of Japan (with a population of 120 million people), the number of young men shot to death in a year is equal to the number killed in New York City in a single busy weekend.