13,737 Quotes About Death

La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.