Death Quotes

There’s no getting better, Storm. This is it.” There’s no coming back from the dead.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

Blood diamonds, she thought. That’s exactly what these are. She felt almost as superstitious as the Africans now, as if the pink diamonds themselves had somehow caused all this hardship and death.

Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.

Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.

Welcome to vampire-ville.” He chuckled.

A will can save one’s family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

Fate is the cruelest of masters, takingLife when it pleases or at random, handingRigged decks to whom it pleases, cheatingAll alike and none the wiser, takingEverything away from those with nothing.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

Nothing ceases to exist. Energy does not perish, it merely changes forms. The ones you love, the ones you lose, they still exist as long as the cosmos does.

There are songs that make you cry, right?""Sure, " I say."When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s all the moments you missed out on.

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

I don't wanna be the joker who makes eyes full of tears in the end

I love you, Esmeralda, ” he said.“I love you, too, ” she whispered back, and he couldn’t help smiling. At least he would die with those words in his ears.

Death began to look like a friend.

Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment

Life may be scaryBut it’s only temporary.And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Death is the dance of Life.

That's two full days away. Maybe, if I'm not dead by then, I can still take Sophie.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

You learn to run by running.

Life is like a dream, when you wake up, you only have memories.

It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to be miserable, because it is actually your job.

Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

It's only water, " she said."Tell that to a drowning man, " Giddon said.