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Quotes About Death

And if you must cheat, then please cheat death. Because I couldn't live a day without you.
~ Leap Year
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
~ Orlando Bloom
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
~ Nancy Werlin, Impossible
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
~ David Bowie
It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.
~ Bobby Darin
Life is but a dream for the dead.
~ Gerard Way
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
~ Langston Hughes
The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
~ Tupac Shakur
When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.
~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk
It's just seems life without music would be death.
~ Trevor Hall
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
~ George Eliot
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
~ Johnny Cash
Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."
~ Salman Rushdie
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
~ Brian Eno
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.
~ Sidney Lanier
Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
~ Franz Werfel
God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.
~ R. C. Sproul
Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
~ Stephen Crane
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.
~ Harriet McBryde Johnson
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
~ Bodhidharma
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.
~ John Muir
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
~ Thor Heyerdahl