Quotes about death

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Life is one of the most important causes of death.
— Gerhard Kocher

Life is a loss of time.
— Gerhard Kocher

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?
— Gerhard Kocher

I answer the heroic question "Death where is thy sting?" "It is here in my heart and mind and memories"
— Maya Angelou

We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
— St. Teresa of Avila

Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten - not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who harldy knew them.
— Source Unknown

I urge everyone against choosing their dying words ahead of time. I said mine years ago and now I look like quite the fool.
— Michael Wakcher

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
— Eric Parslow

This is pretty strange, not poems, poems are pretty good.
— James Dye

So many people die young. I'm hoping that's unintended.
— James Dye

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
— Virgil

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
— Henry David Thoreau

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain, â€™T is somewhat late to trouble. This I knowâ€” I should live the same life over, if I had to live again; And the chances are I go where most men go.
— Adam Lindsay Gordon

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
— Gillian Anderson

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
— Stephen King

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world.
— Stephen King

the screams of the addicted without their addictions. the screams of the dead who are somehow still alive.
— Source Unknown

my amends will be my death.
— Source Unknown

God looks at us from above, life looks at us from behind, but death always looks at us in the face.
— Nicoleta Dumitrascu

I was dead when i was born,for others i will die and i will live on in them.
— Laske

Life is like highway,you dont know what will happen on that road, you just know when you reach STOP sing that you are no longer on that road.
— Laske

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.
— Sorin Cerin

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.
— Sorin Cerin

We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.
— Sorin Cerin

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!
— Sorin Cerin

Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.
— Sorin Cerin

All the roads of life end in death.
— Sorin Cerin

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?
— Sorin Cerin

The dead, the day he dies need no one but his dignity and respect.
— Tadj Abelkader

Don't worry about life, no one gets out alive.
— Tadj Abelkader

Only death is natural.
— Tadj Abelkader

Death swallows death.
— Dejan Stojanovic

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
— Steve Jobs

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
— Erich Fromm

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
— Jean Giraudoux

Death is Inevitable... A period to a complete sentence called ~life~ .. Cycle of completion... Its everyone's forceful right... Treat it as a friend coz as an enemy you can neither cheat it or fight...
— Biranchi Parhi

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.
— Kevin Smith

A divinely brilliant life has no regret when DEATH comes along. And you say," Yes, I'm well prepared ! "
— Mak Kazeronnie

When you lose someone, regardless if the loss is human or animal, it is like a part of you has been taken, and, that is just one of the reasons it hurts so much." - T.R. Threston
— threston, t.r.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
— Lord Byron

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
— Bible

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
— Plato

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who for the time scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth aver the dolours of death.
— Francis Bacon

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
— John Donne

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
— Walt Whitman

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
— American Proverb

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
— Emily Dickinson

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
— Fred A. Allen

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
— Susan Sontag

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
— Muriel Spark

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
— Philip Roth

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain

I have no worries even if I die the very next moment, for I am sure that I will be around you even after that! Perhaps as an orphan cloud upon the blue skies, a drop of water falling onto your palms, a leaf of green that capture your vision or an invisible breeze caressing your skin - for I am the beauty of the universe!
— Nambiar Preeth

I have no worries even if I die the very next moment, for I am sure that I will be around you even after that! Perhaps as an orphan cloud upon the blue skies, a drop of water falling onto your palms, a leaf of green that capture your vision or an invisible breeze caressing your skin - for I am the beauty of the universe!
— Preeth Nambiar

In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?
— Preeth Nambiar