Life And Death Quotes

I am so glad that God miraculously save my life at near-death.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a transition.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only promise life fulfills is its end.

~ Jennifer Ellision

No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Caught between life and death, I clung to life.

~ Diogo Mainardi

Life even at its tiniest molecule is impermanent, transient, unsure and fickle. We try to make it worthwhile not by adding value to it but by improving our social perception, seeking validation in our interactional circles. Life cannot be valued for in the end, rich or poor, smart or dumb, popular or hermit, we are nothing but dust, vapor, blurry memories that eventually are soon forgotten.

~ Crystal Evans

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

~ A.b. Shepherd

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.

~ Arnaldur Indriðason

This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?

~ Roman Payne

People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.

~ Alex Potvin

Here upon earth there is life, and then death,Dawn, and later nightfall,Fire, and the quenching of embers:But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,If the idea fits my fancy?

~ John Gould Fletcher

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

~ Kenneth Eade

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Death is the destiny of every man. Why do people fight over power and material wealth.We brought nothing into the world, certainly, we will take nothing out of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My wishes before I die, to fulfill my mission on earth; The writing of my life stories to inspired present and future generations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on.

~ Katy Tackes

The greatest loss is the loss of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

~ Robin Hobb

I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal.

~ Ahdaf Soueif

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understandIt will be late to counsel then or pray.Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

~ Christina Rossetti

I know you are afraid, you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever.

~ Christina Rasmussen

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

~ John Green

When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.

~ Germany Kent

Would we believe their story, if the dead should return?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only time that exists in life is now.

~ Ken Poirot

Life is but a passing shadow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Living well is dying well.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Death is the final destination of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The dead only knows their world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest loss is the lost of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Life on earth is a transition.Death is final rest of every man.What legacy do you wish to live?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Drink deep the cup of life, take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once.

~ Jack Mcdevitt

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

~ Stieg Larsson

Indeed the mind of Ilúvatar concerning you is not known to the Valar, and he has not revealed all things that are to come. But this we hold to be true, that your home is not here, neither in the land of Aman nor anywhere within the Circles of the World. And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they grew afraid; and some grew wilful and proud and would not yield, until life was reft from them.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.

~ John Marsden

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

~ Steven Hall

He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?Jayne shrugged and replied, Because that's where he likes to hang out?

~ Nonjon