Quotes on Death - Your time is limited
“No
one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Your
time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped
by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't
let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow
already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
―
Steve Jobs
“Death
is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference
for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
―
Helen Keller
“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.”
―
Jodi Picoult
“If
there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
―
Will Rogers
“That
is — your friend?"
"Philtatos,"
Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“It
is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to
live.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I
think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I
knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can
tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they
know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she
stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at
me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably
didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End
“Dying
Is
an art, like everything else.
I do
it exceptionally well.
I do
it so it feels like hell.
I do
it so it feels real.
I
guess you could say I have a call.”
―
Sylvia Plath, Ariel
“We
are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going
to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could
have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day
outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include
greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because
the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of
actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our
ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth
against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior
state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
―
Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for
Wonder
“A
man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“At
the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It
has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss,
only feel it.”
―
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“People
living deeply have no fear of death.”
―
Anaïs Nin
“I
carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little
harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw
a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary
tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy
lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door
neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only
detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Every
man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he
died that distinguish one man from another.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“One
lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
―
Antonio Porchia
“Your
mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it
is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you
leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply,
even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection
forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and
ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason.
It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“My
sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever.
It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's
just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the
other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with
daring and spirit and joy.”
―
Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“Many
people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“The
dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
―
Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
