Quotes about Death

grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.

In living we die, in dying we live.

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.