Quotes about death

Some of you are probably thinking that you may panic and run. You will not! Others are worried about dying. Some of you will. But all men die. No one ever gets out of this life alive.

Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.

There is only one way to survive in war, and that is by being willing to die. You will find soon that swordsmen can be downed by untutored savages who would slice their fingers if asked to carve meat. And why? because the savage is willing. Worse, he may be a baresark.

"One day you'll find a love, and then we can talk on equal terms. I do not mean that to sound patronizing. You are bright and intelligent. You have courage and wit. But sometimes, it is like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Love, as I hope you will find, has great power. Even death cannot destroy it. And I still love her."

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the Fifth, and master of all.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Gabriel scowled through his glasses. Why were ghosts such imbeciles? Who could be blamed for striving, at any cost, to avoid forever the decay-of-self that death was?

When my mother told me the meek would inherit the earth, I told her all I wanted of it was the shovelful that would cover my cold face.

Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.