Death Quotes

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

All that is not God is death.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.