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The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death") — Cornell Woolrich

I'm just glad you didn't die while we were gone," Brent said. "He'd be so pissed. And you know, you'd be dead. So that would suck. — Bree Despain

Though one were strong as seven,
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born. — Lisa Loeb

Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged. — Elise Forier Edie

The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty. — Carrie Ryan

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again! — Robert Southey

But here must end the story of my life,
And happy were I in my timely death
Could all my travels warrant me they live. — William Shakespeare

It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death. — Jeff Abbott

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried. — Simona Panova

Maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts — Lorraine Heath

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. — T. S. Eliot

In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

Do these robots looked armed? And I was talking to the dinosaur. Were you worried he would discuss me to death? — A. Lee Martinez

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix. — Richard Dawkins

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing. — David Blaine

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid. — Liv Ullmann

Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe. — Nenia Campbell

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. — Janet Evanovich

They were willing to send men and women to death to avoid being called losers. — Steve Sheinkin

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death. — Geraldine Brooks

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience. — Katy Butler

Mark and the old soldier were about a mile away from the village when the stench of death hit them like a fresh wave of unbearable heat. — James Dashner

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago. — Michel De Montaigne

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman

Maybe I don't have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death. — Pliny The Younger

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead. — William Bradford

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society. — Baron De Montesquieu

They were all alone. Their voices had died like echoes of the words of God spoken and vibrating in the shared deep. — Ray Bradbury

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. — Douglas William Jerrold

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. — George Saunders

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind. — P.C. Cast

The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes. — Nicholaus Patnaude

He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death — Cormac McCarthy

She said to embrace each change as if it were a small death. — Suzanne Morrison

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. — William Shakespeare

I was having nightmares because I'd discovered monsters that were real. Disease and the prospect of death were far scarier than any boogeyman. — Joelle Charbonneau

Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all. — Kevin Dalton

It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact. — Emma Donoghue

Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because — Dean Koontz

Good-by,'! he said to all those who were kneeling. 'Don't be said. To die is nothing. The only bad thing is to die at the hands of this canalla. — Ernest Hemingway,

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it — Orson Scott Card

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
... 'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living. — Anne Fortier

Classical Studies
Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?

Answer: Suspicious ones — Richard Benson

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly. — J.D. Robb

Maybe it was this brush with death that was driving us to furiously prove we were alive. — Richelle Mead

Celaena had been everything that Aelin wasn't. She had embraced that life, even if Celaena's accomplishments were death and torture and pain. — Sarah J. Maas

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless. — Boep Joeng

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives. — Seneca The Younger

If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you. — Marcus Aurelius

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return. — Allison Pearson

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal. — Diana Pharaoh Francis

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death? — Jojo Moyes

When these with violence were put to death,
We prayed to God four our Elizabeth. — Emily Purdy

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die? — Gail Carriger

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. — Leonid Andreyev

pupils were fixed in the position of wide black dilatation that signifies brain death, and obviously would never respond to light again. — Joan Didion

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

They were in that bed together for a long time, taking the sweetness of life in the shadow of death. — Alter S. Reiss

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. — Anne Rice

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead. — Ann Beattie

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die. — David Leavitt

It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder. — Maggie Stiefvater

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK. — Mitch Hedberg

He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension. — J.U. Scribe

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car.
If this was fate, she was buying. — Tara Janzen

Each man in this stretcher party had gained a reflected majesty. They were footmen to death, and — Stephen Crane

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not. — Richard Bachman

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. — Vicki Pettersson

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. — Victor Hugo

Fae with Rhi's kind of ability were myth and legends - not true beings. — Donna Grant

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death. — Charles Dickens

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. — Marcus Aurelius

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death. — J.R.R. Tolkien

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans? — Francesca Marciano

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different
when they're gone. — Eileen Wilks

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality. — Albert Camus

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die — Sunday Adelaja

We were
existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us
fully. — Susan Abulhawa

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here ... Death ends life, not a relationship. — Mitch Albom

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains. — Franz Grillparzer

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers. — Tad Williams

If only you were born a hundred years ago, when you could have gone through days of natural labour before bleeding naturally to death, — Liane Moriarty

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned? — Sonal Panse

We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt — Rick Yancey

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. — Jackie French

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second. — Samuel Beckett

As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet. — Neal Stephenson

The bombs were coming-and so was I. — Markus Zusak