Death Quotes

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.