Quotes about Death
We should not seek immortality in reproduction. But if you contribute to the world`s culture, if you have a good idea, compose a tune, invent a spark plug, write a poem, it may live on, intact, long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool.
Death doesn`t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
Everything that comes together falls apart. [...] When you stopped wishing things wouldn`t fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.
Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That’s how it is with everything.
You know how women talk about having babies? This one had an easy delivery, this one had it hard? [...] Death is like that, too.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
We can`t leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there`s the afterbirth.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it`s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.