13,737 Quotes About Death

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.

Some things will never be okay.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

Frankly, I’m not all that certain that I would die for me, which makes God’s choice to do so both confusing and beautiful.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

I basked in you;I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead.(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.