Quotes about Death

“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”

“Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”

“Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.”

“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”

“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.”

“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”

“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”

“We die only once, and for such a long time.”

“What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.”

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”

“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.”

“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”

“Death is very often referred to as a good career move.”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.”

“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.”

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”