Death Quotes

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

Should haves lead to death

Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Death makes us all equal.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

Life. Consider the alternative.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]