Best 9776 quotes in «death quotes» category

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

You can't get out of life alive.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor. Terrible to love the lovely so, To count your own years, to say I'm old, To see a flower half-buried in leaves And come face to face with what you are.

You get angry - death does that.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.