Death Quotes

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

When Death laughs, no one else does

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness

If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Death is only a small interruption.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

You get angry - death does that.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.

I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

I want to go on living after my death!

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.