13,737 Quotes About Death

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force. She has become rich but she has become enslaved and part of her is veiled in secrecy. I do not know whether Rutherford would continue to joke and laugh as he used to.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!

Even Mr. Audubon's beautiful paintings that I have long admired--all were done in death. He would shoot the birds down, then re-create their beautiful details. I was foolish to not realize it sooner. Why, in our efforts to understand and observe life, must we so often snuff it out?

He sat by the fast water, enjoying its speed, its splendid indifference, and its rippling sound, silently observing and wading birds with their shrill curl of beak and voice. He drank deeply of life so that he knew the taste of it here, knew the vibrant wealth of its dominion, knew exactly what he was taking from the man who would die on this ground.

In a world of lies, at least death does not deceive us.

So Nature deals with us, and takes awayOur playthings one by one, and by the handLeads us to rest.

Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.