Death Quotes

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

~ Neymat Khan

Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

~ Peter V. Brett

Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant)

~ Charles De Leusse

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

~ John Fowles

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

~ Rylee Harrison

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

~ Adelaide Crapsey

I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.

~ Gail Carson Levine

She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the

~ John Fairfax

Well, the death of the body is the flight of the arrow. It's makin' a straight line for the brain. No dodgin' it not for anyone. People have't die, the body has't fall. Time is hurlin' that arrow forward. And yet, like I was sayin' thought goes on subdividin' that time for ever and ever. The paradox becomes real. The arrow never hits.In other words, immortality.

~ Haruki Murakami

The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

~ Tony Harrison

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

~ Aimee Bender

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

~ Karen Marie Moning

What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff with meaningless activity. Everything is disposable, including your relationships--especially your your relationships.

~ Rick Yancey

Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.

~ Tanith Lee

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a transfiguration of the mortal into the immortal, the acceptance of the temporal into the eternal. False spirituality is a denial of the flesh; true spirituality is the regeneration of the flesh, its salvation, its resurrection from the dead.

~ Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.

~ Adi Da Samraj

The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty trumps omniscience, for a knower can only ever know what it knows, never what it doesn't. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

~ Mort W. Lumsden

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

~ David S.e. Zapanta

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

~ Héctor Abad Faciolince

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

~ John Piper

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.

~ H. Rider Haggard

I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no more or less. All the life you want, he said. It's all within the palm of your hand now. He said he would outlast all the wars and all the diseases, long enough to remember everything, and long enough to forget everything. He'd be the last man still standing when the sun decides to collapse upon itself and history ends. He said he had found the safest place on earth, where he could stay until the gateway to the beyond opened before him. A thousand generations from today. I pictured him there, atop a remote and snowy mountain. The heavens opening and God congratulating him for his perseverance. Asking him to join Him and watch as the sun burns down to a dull orange cinder and everything around it breaks is orbit and goes tumbling tumbling away, everything that once seemed permanent pulled apart so effortlessly, like a ball of yarn. A life into divinity.But I knew it was a lie. I've always known it was a lie. You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

~ Drew Magary

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

~ Tom Robbins

I have never believed that God “makes” bad things happen. Death happens to everyone, not as a punishment, but because we are not meant to stay on this earth forever. As a result we are vulnerable rather than invincible, as is the earth we live on. And if our soul is immortal, we move forward knowing we can all be together again one day.

~ John Pete

It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.

~ Margaret Mitchell

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

~ Jodi Picoult

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

~ Ally Condie

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

~ J.d. Jordan

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

~ Katherine Sloan

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

~ James C. Dobson

Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

~ J.d. Salinger

There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, breathing her last. She parted her lips, seeking the kiss which should obliterate her, and then the hyacinths and tuberoses exhaled their incense, wrapping her in a final sigh, so profound that it drowned the chorus of roses, and in this culminating gasp of blossom, Albine was dead.

~ Émile Zola

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

~ Sean Covey

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference.Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.

~ Heinrich Heine

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

~ Amin Maalouf

Only birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new .

~ Joseph Campbell