Death Quotes

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

I want to look at you as you kill me.

Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.

We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

It's gonna hurt, now, " said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Killing is easy, " said Mo, "Dying is harder...

Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.Grandfather: What is it, then?

the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

Death is inevitable passion is eternal

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!)and I watched him as he took and took:none of it I could claim as mine.

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

The first time is always the hardest

Tell her thisAnd more, —That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it."STATE OF WONDER

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends, what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.