Best 9776 quotes in «death quotes» category

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem To end it all and let who will survive; To find at last all beauty is but dust; That love and sorrow are the very same; That joy is only suffering's sweeter name; And sense is but the synonym of lust. Far better, yea, to me it seems to die; To set glad lips against the lips of Death-- The only thing God gives that comforteth, The only thing we do not find a lie.

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.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

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 death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

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

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.

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

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

You can't get out of life alive.

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 kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

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