Death Quotes

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

The young may die, but the old must!

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

Ice is for death and endings.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Life and death and rebirth live within me.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.