Death Quotes

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

All true stories end in death.

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

Homosexuality is death, and I choose life.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'