To The Death Quotes

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well, then it's everybody'sparty.

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

the gods play nofavorites.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!

Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

La tristesse durera toujours.]

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.

The only sin is the sin of being born

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

the worst thing, " he told me, "is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth, --The sweeping up the heart, And putting love awayWe shall not want to use againUntil eternity

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.