Quotes about Death

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, and that one is prepared in the end, to be defeated, and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.”

"The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried."

The living are soft and yielding;
the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender;
the dead are brittle and dry.

Those who are stiff and rigid
are the disciple of death.
Those who are soft and yielding
are the disciples of life.

The rigid and stiff will be broken.
The soft and yielding will overcome.

I felt like Meg Ryan, seconds from tragic death. It was fucking harrowing.

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me

I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it.  For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?'  Six words.  'I really care for you.'  Five words.  'You matter to me'  Four words.  'I love you.'  Three words.  'Marry me.'  Two words.  Well, what's left?  What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody? 

'Goodbye...'

"There are people in life, who show you how to live.  There are people in life, who show you how to die."

For life is eternal and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.  ~ Rossiter W. Raymond

Oh, how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying.

I was dying. Of course. This was it. Curtain. Finis. I dropped to my knees on the sidewalk and prayed to Jesus for another crack at life. But then I became confused, unable to recall who Jesus’s father was. Why this should have been important I can’t venture to guess, but it got me on the subject of fathers. I realized, with an incredible sensation of vertigo, I was old enough to be my own father.

Man is truly born the time he dies.

"Love doesn't die a natural death. Love has to be killed, either by neglect or narcissism. Those guilty of these two crimes of the heart always hide behind excuses convenient; too ashamed, lacking in integrity and courage to face the truth. To them, it is always something other than their own actions, desires and self-importance that dictate circumstances. For these people, so blind to truth, true love can never be fully experienced for they have never really given of themselves all that they are."

Death is all that we are not.

The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.

Some people say global warming and ozone depletion will kill us. But I`m far more worried about the people who have made it their sworn duty to keep us all alive.

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.

I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.

Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you.  How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

We are born with two incurable diseases; life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

We are born with two incurable diseases; life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Aimed at as something terminal or ultimate or absolute, quiescence is, from the standpoint of life, a form of death, a stillness and inertia, an impassivity. Life is infinite sensitivity to all things, the quicksilver sympatheticism of everything that belongs in the natural cosmos. The mind and will do close out or exclude extraneous distractions as a means to their powers of self-concentration ("Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies," Buckminster Fuller). But Buddhism makes this quiescence not a means but an end in itself, incompatible as it may be with the very life of spirit and of will. Taken as a mere exercise or tonic, it has an utterly different value of course.

They consider DEATH a symptom. And so a disease becomes more important than a life. Funny how a group of 'wise' people get together to get the priorities wrong.

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

Don't think with your head, think with your meat.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't I'd die.