To The Death Quotes

The rest, is silence.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Even death has a heart.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?