Death Quotes

The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I always think fondly of my years inside Detention Center LC/766B.The women and the children I met had all lost people they loved, but they never wallowed in despair.Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on. My fellow inmates/classmates (and really, what's the difference?) showed me it was more interesting to concentrate on the living.Because death is fucking predictable... ...but life has science experiments and free time and surprise naps and who knows what comes next?

~ Brian K. Vaughan

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

~ William Wallace

The death of any man will not remove God's throne.

~ Olawale Daniel

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

~ Rylee Harrison

Live life with grace, there is no return from the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Which soul shall escape the power of the grave?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

DEATHWhy do you fear me?I am your friend.I but guide trav'lersRounding the bend ---Lead them to freedomFrom time and age,Help them start writing a new page...Seek for me never,Keep your course true ---When I am neededI'll come to you,Then I will show youRoads without end ---Why do you fear me?I am your friend.

~ Clarence E. Flynn

Cian smiled a little, but it didn't reach those cool blue eyes. 'Whether it's by violence or nature, the result is the same. I've seen more death than you, more than you ever will. But still, you've seen more than most humans have or will. And that separates us, you and me, from the rest.''We don't have any choice about that.''Oh, of course we do. I know a bit about loneliness, and what can chase it back, even for the short run.

~ Dance Of The Gods

I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

~ Jessica Sorensen

We are dust and to dust we shall return.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is mortal, we are dust and to dust we shall return

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

There is an end to every journey.Even life will come to an end one moment in time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is the destiny of every man. Every man must know this to live wisely.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I live for the moments that won't die in my memory.

~ Jenim Dibie

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

~ Albert Camus

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only thing more fragile than life is the living we take for granted.

~ James Stoddah

Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only when we learn to filter all information, including those valuable lessons and insights gained from our own personal experiences, through our conscience. And as we near death, the knowledge in our hearts at the end must match the knowledge which was put in our hearts in the very beginning. All else is irrelevant.

~ Suzy Kassem

Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

~ Anthony Marra

Mourning was really for the living.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

All death matters.Only to the living.

~ Dean Koontz

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

~ Eudora Welty

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

~ Fay Weldon

Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.

~ Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.If you were to die tomorrow would you feel like you did everything you wanted to? Loved everyone and meant it? Lived with honesty and integrity? Stood up for what you believed in? Did you work to live or did you live to work? Those that hurt you or upset you did you try to work it out? Did you still love them from a distance even if they hurt you so bad? If not work to change and make it right before it's too late.Remember the house, the car, the money and the material possessions you can't take with you when your gone. All you have is YOU and what YOU were about. Remember that.

~ Jill Telford

I'm dead, but I can't stop living.

~ Lauren Oliver

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

~ Richard Sibbes

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

~ Haruki Murakami

Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough.Vol 1 Chap 4

~ Atsuko Asano

Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

One dies the way he lives.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower boxes,then press into rowsthe limp roots of red impatiens—the instant hand of Deathalways ready to burst forthfrom the sleeve of his voluminous cloak.Then the soil is full of marvels,bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco,red-brown pine needles, a beetle quickto burrow back under the loam.Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue,the clouds a brighter white,and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edgeagainst a round stone,the small plants singingwith lifted faces, and the clickof the sundialas one hour sweeps into the next.

~ Billy Collins

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

~ Charles Stross

233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time

~ Derek Keck