Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may… — Joan Didion
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. — Horace
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with… — Philip Kapleau
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call… — Swami Satchidananda
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first… — Carl Jung
My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me.… — Mother Teresa
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say… — Paramahansa Yogananda
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. — Khalil Gibran
Death is just a change in lifestyles. — Stephen Levine
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it… — Thomas Browne
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long… — Frances M. Young
They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give… — Anthony Quinn
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair,… — Ban Ki-moon
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death. — Ban Ki-moon
You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore. — M. Emmet Walsh
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving… — George Eliot
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in… — William Shakespeare
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson

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