Death Quotes

Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'And so we did.

Jim Beaver

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Leonard Sweet

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

Michael Cunningham

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Sorin Cerin

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Mary Roach

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.

Ken Kesey

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.

Chelsie Shakespeare

Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.

Lee Argus

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going

Hlovate

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

What happens if a car comes? We die.

Nicholas Sparks

Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.

E. M. Forster

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage.

Dana Reinhardt

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Alice Sebold

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

Jean Vanier

I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.

Emily Dickinson

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

John Gunther