Death Quotes

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Even in death may you triumphant

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.