Death Quotes

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.

His name was Death. It was pronounced to rhyme with "teeth", but Bitterblue liked to mispronounce it by accident on occassion.

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.

Life is going forth; death is returning home.

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Life is a dream and death an awakening.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.