Death Quotes

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

My life closed twice before its close

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

I love life. I love life to death.

From birth to death we are alone.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.