Death Quotes

It is better to be sorrowful than sad.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is a common destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Man may fall and fail, but God is always right. Man may die and perish, but God is always alive.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People may break your heart and drive you crazily. God is the only dependable person you should rely on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People whose imaginations are infected with fear die sooner out of incurable failure.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?

~ Chaim Potok

Every man shall give account of his life to his Maker.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Naked we were born, naked shall we return to grave. What then is the toil?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

~ Steve Goodier

The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Don’t spend too much time grieving for me, Elena. I know you’re probably a little sad as you’re reading this, since that means I’m dead and you’re having to learn how to go on in a new way. I would be sad if you didn’t miss me, so I won’t tell you not to, but I will tell you to keep on living. The world is full of beautiful music, flowers, places, and experiences. Enjoy it all as much as you can. Just remember it’s the people in your life that make it worthwhile...People and memories, not things are what’s important in the end. Nothing else matters as much as that.

~ M. Reed Mccall

There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.

~ Keith Buckley

With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.

~ Manoj Arora

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

~ Kathryn Craft

If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed.

~ Munia Khan

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

~ Hector Berlioz

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

~ Robertson Davies

We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death.

~ Sorin Cerin

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

~ Sarah Ash

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

~ Mitch Albom

Everything we hold will soon elapse,as we’ll sleep through one dreamless night;but rising again to this dream, whether we’ll behiding behind our darkness or this borrowed light?- Thou little fool

~ Deepak Rawat

Everything we hold will soon elapse,as we’ll sleep through one dreamless night;but rising again to this dream, whether we’ll behiding behind our darkness or this borrowed light?- Thou little fool

~ Deepak Rawat

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

~ Richard Smyth

Nobody ever goes before their time.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Say you want to live life like a movie.Keep in mind there’s a running time.

~ Tablo

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

~ Philip K. Dick

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

~ Harold Bloom

You can ask why all day long if you want to. You can ask God why and your friends why and yourself why until you're buried in nothing but that single question, but you'll never get an answer. This side of heaven, time is the only thing that helps a little bit. So don't give in. Don't let the whys have it. Don't let them take advantage of you. They'll crush your heart and steal your peace and mess with your mind and wrap around you so tight you won't be able to breathe. Don't let the whys ruin your life, child. Every time they try to sneak up, push them aside and move forward. Trust me, it's the only way you can get on with living.I turn toward the window and think about her words. What if I can't? Let it go, I mean?I don't see her smile, but I can hear it. You can. I know you can. Because no matter how hard life gets, there's always goodness right around the corner. All you have to do is look for it.

~ Amy Matayo

I can't look at everything hard enough!

~ Thornton Wilder

Long live the dead because we live in them.

~ Clarice Lispector

A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my hand. The sparkly mess of flies I'd swept from the corners. It took sustained, constant living to ward off decay.

~ Emma Cline

When men shake hands with time, time crushesThem like tumblers; little pieces of glass.

~ Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma'arri

You're not just getting old, you're getting closer to your death; and you don't want to miss anything.

~ J. Limbu

Never take life too seriously, you're never getting out of it alive.

~ John Chaplin

A chubby vole sat as guardian between the two sections, making sure the hoi polloi didn't get any ideas above their station. His name was Harold, and the most important thing he had learned in his life, as far as he was concerned, was that it was entirely possible to sleep with one's eyes open, or at least open enough to deceive passersby, if one was willing to put in a bit of practice. True, it wasn't as good as a full-on nap, but any degree of slumber was better than waking. As far as Harold was concerned, the biter part of existence lay in those little moments of oblivion that preceded the last.

~ Daniel Polansky

What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you.

~ Jackson Lanzing