Death Quotes

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

I’d seen him fight before, but it never got old. He was captivating. He never stopped moving. Every action was graceful and lethal. He was a dancer of death.

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Political elections are not life and death.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.

I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

She sleeps alone at last.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.