Death Quotes

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

In greatness, life and death merge.

Death swallows death.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Grief shared was grief lessened.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.