Quotes about Death

tasted the bitterness of death

If you love me as I love you ?Nothing but death can part us two.

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

In Jewish tradition, dying in one's sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

There are five incomplete phenomena (or unripe fruits). The incomplete experience of death is sleep; an incomplete form of prophecy is dream; the incomplete form of the world to come is the Sabbath; the incomplete form of the heavenly light is the orb of the sun; the incomplete form of heavenly wisdom is the Torah.

The body without the spirit is a corpse; the spirit without the body is a ghost.