Death Quotes
-
Just like that—in one apocalyptic moment—simple and beautiful. A birth. But also a kind of death. Like lightning in a storm. In one flash of light, the whole desert was lit, and you could see the universe. That’s what she had seen—the universe in the hands of a child feeling the face of a man.
-
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
-
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
-
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
-
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
-
Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
-
We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.
-
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
-
I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
-
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
-
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
-
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
-
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
-
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
-
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
-
“I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.”
-
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
-
Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
-
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
-
Socrates said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
-
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.
-
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
-
We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
-
Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
