Quotes about Death

Life itself is a sea full of rocks and whirlpools that man avoids with the greatest caution and care, although he knows that, even when he succeeds with all his efforts and ingenuity in struggling through, at every step he comes nearer to the greatest, the total, the inevitable and irremediable shipwreck, indeed even steers right on to it, namely death. This is the final goal of the wearisome voyage, and is worse for him than all the rocks that he has avoided.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction.

Our dead line our dreams, their deaths becoming more and more commonplace.

Within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not - I am not only a casuality, I am also a warrior.

Death folds the corners of my mouth into a heart-shaped star. It sits on my tongue like a stone around which your name blossoms distorted. — Audre Lorde, from "Speechless," The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde . (W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition February 17, 2000)

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.