Death Quotes

Life 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

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

~ Daisy Whitney

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.

~ Jason Goodman

I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.

~ Whitney Barbetti

It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.

~ Rin Chupeco

The living are more demanding, the dead can wait.

~ Primo Levi

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

~ Muriel Spark

Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

~ Lee Strauss

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

~ Bryant Mcgill

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

~ Ian Fleming

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long.We do not die.We pass on.Pass on the life burning through our throats.When you leave me, I will not cry for you.I will run into the strongest wind I can find and welcome you home.

~ Michael Lee

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

~ Maya Angelou

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

~ Gavin Extence

If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn't have you and Dad, if you hadn't made it so clear you loved me as much as you did, or if you'd said, 'yeah, why don't you do it, and put yourself out of our misery, just shut up,' I would have killed myself. I really would have. I spent most of those days wishing I were dead anyway, and what always stopped me was the fact that doing so would destroy the lives of the only people who ever cared about me.

~ Nenia Campbell

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250,00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end.

~ N.d. Wilson

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

~ Ricky Maye

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn’t have skates. Most people fear death. I don’t. I’m only afraid of not living. I don’t want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun.

~ Milena Veen

Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we'll ever have.

~ Nenia Campbell

I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.

~ Rachel Higginson

The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing alive and kicking dreams.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

~ Shaun Hick

I would rather burn out than rust out.

~ Amy Carmichael

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

~ Osamu Dazai

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

~ Osamu Dazai

Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.

~ Ann Aguirre

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Death was easy. Life was complicated.

~ Callie Hunter

There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it's just a lack of a heartbeat away.

~ Wes Adamson

When my grandpa died, I had this same fear. I love Grandpa so much. He was Mom's dad, and he was my favorite person in the whole world. He lived up north, between Grayling and the Mackinaw Bridge. He had, like, twenty acres. He had horses and dirt bike and all this awesome stuff. I'd go up there for weeks at a time during the summers, and he'd let me do whatever I wanted. We'd go hunting and fishing and four-wheeling, and I'd stay up till midnight every night. Then one day, he died. All of a sudden, just like that that. I cried for days. Dad kicked the shit out of me for crying, but I didn't care. I loved Grandpa, and he was gone. Then, like a month after he'd died, I had this panic attack. I couldn't remember what he looked like. I thought it meant I didn't love him, or that I'd forgotten about him. It was the only time Dad was anything like helpful. He told me you have to forget what they look like. Otherwise, you can't learn to live without them. Forgetting is your brain's way of telling you it's time to try and move on. Not forget who they were, just...keep living.

~ Jasinda Wilder

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

~ Jael Mchenry

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

~ Simona Panova

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

~ William T. Vollmann

The problem with catching dreams is you forget how truly incredible they are when you live with them everyday.

~ Stacey T. Hunt

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

~ Candy Lightner

We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.

~ Andrew Galasetti

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

~ Arundhati Roy