Death Quotes

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

A life is not a waste of time

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

The bombs were coming-and so was I.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.