Top 100 Death Quotes And Sayings
#1. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#2. Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
#3. Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
Munia Khan
#4. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#5. To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,
to seek folly is to seek evil,
to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,
and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?
Aman Jassal
#7. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#8. At the end to death I must go,
Finishing a real tragic and funny show.
Mohit K. Misra
#9. I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.
Anna White
#10. The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)
Warren Moore
#11. Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
Jim Carroll
#12. Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter's fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea's mouth.
Ava Bloomfield
#13. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
#14. Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.
Christy Hall
#15. I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
(Page 94)
Neena Verma
#16. Death is not good. It's just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.
Aditi Bose
#17. Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.
Michael R. French
#18. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.
Indiana Lang
#20. You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Humanity is as horrified and repulsed by real nature as it is by real death. Thus, we strike back against this formidable opponent with our sharpest weapon: our imagination. From this noble tool - born of necessity and elevated to beauty - culture was born, and the war against nature begun.
Anthony Marais
#22. Death is around every street corner, and some corners are sharper than others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.
Stephen Jenkinson
#24. Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man's life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#25. Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.
Eleesha
#26. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ...
Rosy Cole
#31. Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.
Tyler Perry
#32. Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts": because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.
Nenia Campbell
#33. Life and death are two banks of the same river. Time is the boat on which we travel from one to the other, over and over.
Vinita Kinra
#34. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.
Molly Friedenfeld
#35. He was lying there on his death bed, and he asked for her as his last wish.
She came with tears in her eyes. He held her hand and said with a smile," I wish I died daily", And then a flat line.
Nishikant
#36. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#37. If you are not dead, then there is hope. get up and go conquer the world.
Fenley Douglas
#39. A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup.
John Tarttelin
#40. And tomorrow night, my two loves-one pure yet broken and the other so dark that I now realized I didn't know him at all-they would fight to the death.
Tillie Cole
#41. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.
K. Martin Beckner
#42. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#44. The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her.
Oh yeah... I'll sing it to her when I go home.
I'll go home.
I'll hurry home.
Inio Asano
#46. Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.
Sapan Saxena
#47. My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#48. Wise men perish,
senseless men perish.
Death, the great equalizer
comes for both, takes both,
as eternity draws close,
and Christ comes forth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. The will of life and death,
never share the same motivation ...
we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for ...
but let's not kid ourselves ...
... we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance.
Non Nomen
#50. I am longing for you in life and in death
As the moon is longing for night
and life is longing for breath
Debasish Mridha
#51. Death is really a matter of perspective. So many people say "sorry for your loss" when a special one dies, but I don't see it as a loss. You don't lose the person at all, you gain a guardian angel that will stay with you and watch over you and their loved ones for life.
Tanya Masse
#52. May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.
Eleesha
#53. Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way.
Justin Young
#54. And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
Herman Melville
#55. All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world".
Jay Woodman
#56. I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. Maybe that's why I don't believe in the death penalty. It forecloses all possibilities.
Carsen Taite
#57. Our ultimate finishing line in life is death! Whilst you have life, work hard and trust God!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!
Shay Dawkins
#59. A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life.
A.D. Posey
#60. Life is first boredom, then fear.
whether or not we use it, it goes,
and leaves what something hidden from us chose,
and age, and then the only end of age.
Philip Larkin
#61. Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.
F.D. Lee
#62. At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Life is the gap between birth and death, so enjoy your gap.
Debasish Mridha
#64. We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death.
Debasish Mridha
#65. In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#66. I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.
Ben Jonson
#67. Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don't even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it's all real here. Here it's real.
Lucian Bane
#68. Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
Eleesha
#69. We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!
Tony Dovale
#70. Hasn't stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I'd still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool. -Janco
Maria V. Snyder
#71. Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.
Archibald Marwizi
#72. A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success
Ikechukwu Joseph
#73. Do not desire a long life or an early death
Radhe Maa
#74. Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again
Munia Khan
#75. If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#77. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.
Sheeja Jose
#79. I'll always remember and cherish the time I spent in Heaven, and I'll never fear death when it comes to me again, for I know that it's only the beginning.
Robert Palasciano
#80. The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.
Kimberly Spencer
#81. I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.
Janet Evanovich
#82. Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power.
Slade Combs
#83. I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?
Ryan Lilly
#85. Keep moving. Don't get bogged down. Don't think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don't feel like it.
Rick Riordan
#86. Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.
Christopher Babson
#88. Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will.
Oumar Dieng
#89. Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face!
Auliq Ice
#90. Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on
Joseph Conrad
#92. We live in a world where you can be put to death for your belief and shows how humanity judges in a dreadful motif.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#94. I'm tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I'm tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I'm tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering ...
A.B. Shepherd
#95. Life and death played out before my very eyes.
You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.
Joan Bauer
#96. The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.
Amanda Mosher
#97. A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.
Nikita Dudani
#98. She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.
Lawren Leo
#99. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
Adam Silvera
#100. Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!
Adhish Mazumder
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