Death Quotes

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Death is the same for the one who dies.

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.

If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

If I love something, I wear it to death!

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Inertia is the death of creativity

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.