Death Quotes

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Kira: "Why did Sei choose death? Was it simply to end his pain? Or...No matter what shape he was in or how crazy it was...maybe he wanted to live on forever in Rei.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

There had never been a death so foretold.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.