Death Quotes · Page 523

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

— Plato

“When having that one person in my life and him going away, becomes the difference between life and death, I'll know I…

— Amna Suheyl

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn…

— Seneca the Younger

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

— Anonymous

“Ya me sobrará tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no está todavía en mis proyectos.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Life is a cycle, a great wheel that turns throughout time: we are born, we live, we die, and (if we are…

— Robyn Bachar

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

— Ronald Blythe

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

— Sathya Sai Baba

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of…

— Ann Weems

I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe…

— Anjem Choudary

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything…

— Robin Sloan

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking…

— Lancelot Andrewes

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…

— Anonymous

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will…

— Howard Storm

In those pamphlets that they give at mental health centers where they list the ten or so symptoms that would indicate a…

— Anonymous

“Our love transcends space and time. No culture or creed could ever keep us apart. Even death is just the beginning.”

— Aurora Whittet

“Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence.”

— Michael E. Moseley

“Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

— Richard Pryor

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”

— Anthony Burgess

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

— Anonymous

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I can write a death sentence; give me a pen, a heart, and the one who ripped it out.

— Johnneil Bertrand

“You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention.”

— Amie Kaufman

“Doesn’t do much good,” she’d said, “to fear one kind of death and not another.”

— Victoria Schwab

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.”

— Shannon Alder

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

— Stephenie Meyer

We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

— Isaiah Berlin

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“We all die, Shayda.” He turns and looks at me. “It’s about how we choose to get there.”

— Leylah Attar

I dont want to achieve immortality through my work ¦ I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

— Woody Allen

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

— George Crabbe

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

— Haddon W. Robinson

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be…

— Albert Einstein

“Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and…

— Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

“He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.”

— V.S. Carnes