Death Quotes

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.

Death: the grand perhaps.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

Shun death, is my advice.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

Death is only perfect rest.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

Repetition is the death of art.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

The dead are too much with us.

Death is the only limit to the road you travel.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.