Top 100 Death Is Quotes
#2. I will tell you something that you don't want to hear: Autumn is ugly! Look at the dying leaves! There is no beauty in dying! Death is always ugly! The beauty of autumn is just an illusion, my friend! Wake up and see the real truth! See the crying leaves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. The adrenaline of death is difficult to match. A mind knows when lief is really at stake. You can't convince it otherwise, you can't lie to it.
Sarang Gupta
#4. The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased
Philippe Aries
#7. Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
Jay Parini
#10. When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.
Jackie Stewart
#11. So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.
John Zakour
#12. The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as 'the sum of the functions by which death is resisted
Richard Holmes
#13. And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
Natalie Goldberg
#14. Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.
Janet Morris
#15. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof
#16. Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life
D. Aswini
#17. Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#18. No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.
William Mountford
#20. Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Ovid
#22. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
William Penn
#23. To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.
Michael Foley
#24. But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.
Nicholson Baker
#25. I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.
Joy Harjo
#26. Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God
Jennifer Hoover
#27. Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
Clarice Lispector
#28. Death is always there, just beneath the surface.
Mason Cooley
#29. For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Sophocles
#30. Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.
(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)
Paula Hawkins
#31. When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.
Frederick Lenz
#32. The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.
Billy Graham
#33. Death is not dreadful or else it would have appeared dreadful to Socrates.
Epictetus
#34. Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
Friedrich Schiller
#35. Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
Terence McKenna
#36. Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
Robert Jordan
#37. It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.
Francis Ford Coppola
#38. Death is the common right Of toads and men, - Of earl and midge The privilege. Why swagger then? The gnat's supremacy Is large as thine.
Emily Dickinson
#39. For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a reunion. The very idea of resurrection is so seductive a concept it's easy to forget, before you can rise from the dead you have to spend a few days in hell.
Emily Thorne
#40. Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#42. Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
#43. Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
Norman Cousins
#44. Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
Ivan Turgenev
#45. Life is hell but death is worse.
- from No Deposit
Donald Hall
#46. Even the fear of death is barely enough to counter this compulsion of ours.
Hugh Howey
#47. My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#48. Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Bell Hooks
#49. Life is once, Death is Once, You'll find happy and sad. If your life doesn't move into other side, you may be a loser.
Ady Mifarizki
#50. Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren
if you accept it, it has no power over you.
Darren Shan
#51. For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.
Robert Ludlum
#52. I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.
Bill Maher
#53. Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#54. Place the crosshairs over his heart. It would be a mercy killing. A man who goes to sleep without satisfying his woman deserves punishment. He sleeps through her self-pleasure? Death is too kind.
Jessica Clare
#55. You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empower myself and I remind myself that the dead are still alive. However, only the ones who are good, not evil pieces of shit like you will enjoy peace of mind
Angel Ramon Medina
#56. Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Thomas Paine
#57. Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it.
Abigail Thomas
#58. Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.
Susan Sontag
#59. Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
Amelia Barr
#60. Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.
Joshua L. Liebman
#61. Death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike,
Dean Koontz
#62. Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt
#63. Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.
Joe De Sena
#64. Morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
Charles Bukowski
#65. And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks
Tom Robbins
#66. Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.
Rosi Braidotti
#67. Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life.
Caitlin Moran
#68. Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?
-(The Beginning and the End)
Naguib Mahfouz
#69. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.
Sophocles
#70. Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .
Ayn Rand
#71. End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.
George R R Martin
#73. A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.
Homer
#74. The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
Raheel Farooq
#75. If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
Max Lucado
#76. THE ONLY THING THAT CAUSES DEATH, IS LIFE
David Lake
#77. Well when my death is in front,
I just want to turn back to my life,
And say the last thing,
looking in to its lens that,
"Life oh my life,
Nobody would have ever painted
this life as beautiful as i did". Good Bye
-Ravi
Ravi
#78. Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
#79. In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
Joan Halifax
#80. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.
W. Somerset Maugham
#81. Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
Kanye West
#82. Life is going forth; death is returning home.
Laozi
#83. I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.
Peter Greenaway
#85. Death is not the end of the road - it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
Billy Graham
#86. Death is not an exact science, which is irritating for those of us who appreciate precision.
Meg Haston
#87. As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr's death seems like normal obedience.
David Platt
#88. Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Heinrich Heine
#89. I'm scared," I whispered and put the fork down.
"Yeah, I know ya are. We're all gonna die, Cookie. Death is the devil you know. The better you live, the more you piss him off, and he just hates that. Right now, you're lettin' him get his way.
J.B. Hartnett
#90. Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Tony Visconti
#91. No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Derrick Jensen
#92. We need to know the truth of that, pray to understand that death is just the false belief that anything could ever end. There's no going anywhere for any of us, not in reality. There's only changing how you see things." I
Emily Fridlund
#93. What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair ... Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. [ ... ]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.
David Platt
#95. Now death is death! and yet is not one death Another death? Stabbing is not the same As shooting! Would you say a strangled man Was drown'd? The end is one, the means are many, And there the difference lies!
Victoria Laurie
#96. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
Woody Allen
#97. Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
Publilius Syrus
#98. I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#99. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death ... is the true measure of the Divine within us.
Alan Brennert
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