Death Quotes

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

I've never had an abortion. And I don't know if I would. But, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Life without literary studies is death.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

The most happy ought to wish for death.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.