Top 100 When Death Comes Quotes
#1. When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
Lady Gregory
#2. I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.
Laura Lippman
#3. Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#4. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
Laozi
#5. So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
Epicurus
#6. Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.-RVM
R.v.m.
#7. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
#8. When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
Mason Cooley
#9. Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#10. So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Epicurus
#11. I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.
Anne Ellis
#12. Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Richard Adams
#13. No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck
#14. I told her I don't think grief is a price we pay for love, but rather that it is a part of love. When death comes, I think the grief is to be experienced the way the joy was experienced before - and if we experience it intimately, grief and joy are not separate, and both are love.
Barry Graham
#15. Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
John Updike
#16. Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.
Ted Dekker
#17. When death comes ... .
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what it's going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
Mary Oliver
#18. First my husband, then my parents died. After that I lost my two sisters. When death comes to someone's home it's as if it wants to get as much done as quickly as possible to save coming again for a long time.
Guy De Maupassant
#19. When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
#21. When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order.
Chris Cleave
#22. When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and as she pressed her fingers into his, all of my father's adventures and hard living melted away. He knew that he had met the woman he would love until he couldn't love anymore.
Hannah Tinti
#23. Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#24. Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
Thomas Boston
#25. Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.
Lu Yen-hsun
#26. When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
Andrew Jackson
#27. The important thing is to make sure that when death comes, it finds us still alive.
Fausto Brizzi
#28. I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all.
And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
Jenny Downham
#29. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
Rumi
#30. We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.
Anthony Liccione
#31. The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.
Nabeshima Naoshige
#32. We don't like death. We'd rather produce seeds another way. But death to ourselves, our agendas, our expectations, our hopes is necessary to find deep joy that comes when we fully relinquish ourselves to the gospel.
Mary E. DeMuth
#33. In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
Alan Clark
#34. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
Ambrose Bierce
#36. Since death is an inevitablility and life an uncertainty, it all comes down to how we live the precious moments of our lives. When all is said and done, when you are ready to slip peacefully from this world into the next, how do you want to be remembered?
S. Cameron Roach
#37. I thought you were going to be a grey little man like most of us but you outshone us all. When your times comes, Guntram, you could look Death in the face and tell her, 'I go now but how I lived my life!
Tionne Rogers
#38. One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?
Raymond E. Feist
#39. I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
Alan Ladd
#40. When that glorious day comes, sin and death will be destroyed and Satan will be banished. All the strife and hatred and suffering and death that twist and scar this world will vanish, and the Lord's Prayer will be fulfilled: God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Billy Graham
#41. I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Everett Ruess
#42. Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#43. There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.
R. Alan Woods
#44. No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is ever asked when he wishes to leave.
Soren Kierkegaard
#45. Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."
Janet Morris
#46. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep.
Annie Fisher
#47. I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
Christopher Hitchens
#48. Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
St. Angela Merici
#49. Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
Jasper Fforde
#50. Generations of men are like the leaves.
In winter, winds blow them down to earth,
but then, when spring season comes again,
the budding wood grows more. And so with men:
one generation grows, another dies away.
Homer
#51. Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
#54. You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt ... but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.
George R R Martin
#55. I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants.
Katie Roiphe
#57. The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed by spreading boils and hideous discolorations of the skin. So excruciating is the pain that death, when it comes, is a mercy.
-The Book of the Eternal Rose
Fiona Paul
#58. Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations.
When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.
Toba Beta
#59. Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Albert Camus
#60. Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
Elie Wiesel
#61. Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.
Gerry McGovern
#62. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
Cormac McCarthy
#63. But death is a thing that comes to all alike. Not even the gods can fend it away from a man they love, when once the destructive doom of leveling death has fastened upon him.
Homer
#64. In the grand scheme of things, the stuff that comes with a forewarning isn't really that important. We know when that big exam is, the driving test, a long-awaited holiday. But birth, death and the police knocking at your door tend to be a bit less predictable.
Donna Ford
#65. They call the figure that takes our loved ones from this world the angel of death, when really he's just a corrupt errand boy who hides deep within his hood when he comes to take souls to the other side.
T.M. Frazier
#66. When you realize that death is at the center of love, it is quietly liberating. Instead of fighting the death that comes with love, you embrace what your Father has given you. A tiny resurrection begins in your
Paul E. Miller
#67. I think there comes a point when the outcome of a battle is inevitable but the fighting has not ended. Then the enemy becomes exhaustion and pain. A common enemy. Does the soldier holding in his entrails and facing the death reaper, care any longer what he fought for?" said Quain.
Adrian G. Hilder
#68. No public official should be considered to be above criticism - and the higher up that official is, the more important it is to hold his or her feet to the fire when it comes to carrying out duties involving the life and death of individuals and the fate of the nation.
Anonymous
#69. In early childhood (as, perhaps, after death) a person extends in all directions at the same time, so we can say he still doesn't exist yet- the personality comes into being later, when an attachment to some particular direction appears.
Victor Pelevin
#70. When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.
Frederick Lenz
#71. In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
Tea Obreht
#72. When tragedy comes like this, at first it is complete. You do not need to think it over, or decide what it means. For it is far ahead of you, and the very act of acknowledging it means letting it go. But then it comes round again - and it goes through you and is worse than before.
Benjamin Lytal
#73. I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
#74. This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
Omar Khayyam
#75. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.
Jeff Goins
#76. When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.
Milarepa
#77. O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
Ama Ata Aidoo
#78. I don't remember when i was born.
Death I haven't experienced yet.
All I know is I'm here now and right up until my used by date comes , I'm going to shake that tree of life until every leaf falls off.
Lou Silluzio
#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. When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey
Elizabeth Lowell
#81. As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that
Michel De Montaigne
#82. Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting ... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
Angelina Jolie
#83. Magicians can be confusing, but
when Moses arrives and throws down the rod that becomes a dragon, how do the trick bowls
look then? When something that alive comes, illusory matters fade. They quit bragging!
A body's death, even, is beautiful to those who see with the soul's eye.
Rumi
#84. Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.
Steve Forbes
#85. Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way.
John O'Donohue
#86. I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
Sharyn McCrumb
#87. But occasionally the feeling stays with me, and it reminds me of being a child - feeling full of fear but lacking the language to calm yourself down. I guess, when it comes to death, none of us really has the words.
Lena Dunham
#88. People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that's not the case. Death is complex. It's powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes to death, nothing is impossible.
Jacqueline E. Smith
#89. Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
C.S. Lewis
#90. Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.'
Rajneesh
#91. It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.
Pietro Metastasio
#92. Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#93. Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.
Jerry Spinelli
#94. Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
Blaise Pascal
#95. Why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?
Victor Hugo
#96. Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
#97. But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.
Monica Hesse
#98. When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
Jim Elliot
#99. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.
Jocelyn Gibb
#100. To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)
Gregory Bassham
