Quotes about Death

“I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.”

“Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'”

“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”

“Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.”

“I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.”

“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.”

“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”

“Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.”

“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.”

“The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.”

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.”

“An evil life is a kind of death.”

“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”

“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.”

“I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.”

“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”