Death Quotes

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

~ E.m. Forster

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief,its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

~ Omar Khayyám

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

~ George R.r. Martin

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

~ Sylvia Plath

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies,One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

~ Omar Khayyám

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

~ Ernest Hemingway

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

~ Jimmy Buffett

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

~ Robyn Schneider

What am I dying for?

~ Stephenie Meyer

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

~ Mary Harris Jones

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Until death it is all life

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

No one escapes from life alive.

~ Michael Crichton

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~ Charles Bukowski

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

~ William Faulkner

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

~ Charles Bukowski

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

~ Phil Lester

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

~ Gemma Malley

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

~ Guy De Maupassant

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

~ Karl Pilkington

Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, that it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn't it? And as you split the frost-laced wood with numb hands, rejoice that your uncertainty is God's will and His grace toward you that that is beautiful, and a part of a greater certainty, as your own father always said in his sermons and to you at home. And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

~ P. Harding

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

~ Ali Shariati

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

The dead do not hurt you, only the living do.

~ Tess Gerritsen

How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

~ Deborah Curtis

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

~ Ruta Sepetys

So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

~ Langston Hughes

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

~ Michael Cunningham

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

~ Roman Payne

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

~ Loretta Ellsworth

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

~ Alice Walker

We all know we're going to die, what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

~ Anne Lamott

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

~ Isabel Allende

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

~ Charlotte Brontë

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.

~ Ian Mcewan

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

~ Nicholson Baker