Death Quotes
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?
In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.
Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?
En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.
She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls
Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back
One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.
Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.
Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.
What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.
a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening
Sit, " Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later."~Chloe to Dageus.
For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.
The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.
How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.
Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature.
The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.
When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.
The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)
Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo.