Life And Death Quotes

Perhaps we’re back at the frontiers only of science here, and there’s nothing supernatural about it – just the emergence, through a thinning divide, of physical space shared with all that’s thought dead and lost.

~ Andrea Gillies

We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on. —Kazuto Kirigaya Kirito (Sword Art Online)

~ Reki Kawahara

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life, I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.

~ Amanda Nuri

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around.Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

~ Dean Koontz

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

~ T.s. Eliot

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

~ Leo Tolstoy

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

~ Justin Cronin

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

~ Terry Pratchett

I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still that think that, sometimes, maybe the afterlife is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter...I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take her genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else there entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed...energy is never created and never destroyed. We cannot be born and cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations... Thomas Edison's last words were: It's very beautiful over there. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

~ John Green

Death is the privilege of human natureAnd life without it were not worth our takingThither the poor, the unfortunate, and MournerFly for relief & lay their burdens down.

~ Elizabeth Fama

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?

~ Kiersten White

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

~ Susan Abulhawa

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

~ John Green

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well?

~ Jen Naumann

We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.

~ Heather Gudenkauf

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

~ Yann Martel

There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

~ Monica La Porta

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

~ Bryan Murphy

Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return

~ Melissa Coleman

To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.

~ Kat Kruger

What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I can't afford to yet? What the hell am I supposed to do?

~ Yukako Kabei