Death Quotes

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

By daily dying, I have come to be.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Death submits to no one.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.