Quotes on “death”

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)