Death Quotes

Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

You can't get out of life alive.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death... It's possible. Even when you have no evidence to point to.... It's possible.

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

Jesus, you've got a death wish." "Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.

Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I've played everything but the harp.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.