Death Quotes

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

The sign of death is weakness.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Rest is for the dead.

I want to meet my God awake.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

It's never fun to read death threats.

They say even death can't cure an idiot. -Ririn

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.