Death Quotes
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Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first.
— Khaled Hosseini
And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
— Bobby Fischer
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
— Kevin Spacey
All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire
— George R R Martin
The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
— Mary Stewart
You're not out for the count until you're dead.
— Silvia Hartmann
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
— C.S. Lewis
Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night. — Franz Kafka
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Her death ... brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.
— Sheldon Vanauken
Life was best when standing in the shadow of death.
— Alter S. Reiss
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
— W.C. Fields
Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.
— A.B. Shepherd
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
— Ambrose Bierce
The journey from first breath to death has nothing to do with miracles, how much you pray, coincidences, or divine intervention. Sometimes
— Colleen Hoover
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
— Kalle Lasn
Is there life before death? - that is the question!
— Anthony De Mello
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
— Brian Jacques
It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge
You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me.
— J.J. Abrams
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
— Fred G. Gosman
Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.
— James Hetfield
Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.
— Gautama Buddha
You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashion accessory. — J.D. Robb
"It's not a fashion accessory. — J.D. Robb
And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
— Zhuangzi
Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
— Bruce Springsteen
What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..
— Janet Morris
The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.
— Kelly Link
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
— Henry George Bohn
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
— Miyamoto Musashi
You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton
Is it true, as is claimed
that after death man continues
a phantom existence
I'll let you know — Gherasim Luca
that after death man continues
a phantom existence
I'll let you know — Gherasim Luca
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
— Franz Kafka
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.
— Giacomo Matteotti
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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
Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...
— Rebecca McNutt
If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary.
— Val Edward Simone
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
— Tupac Shakur
There are fates worse than death.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying. — John Dryden
Love has found out a way to live, by dying. — John Dryden
Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!
— Leo Tolstoy
Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what?
— MaryElizabeth Williams
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
— Rabindranath Tagore
As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
— Bruce Springsteen
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
— Renae Jones
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.
— Bill Musselman
Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.
— Clarence H. Burns
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
— Jason Goodman
I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
— Elie Wiesel
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
— Virginia Woolf
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
— Mencius
We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
— J.J. Snow
Jesus Christ - who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens - can now be eaten in the form of a cracker
— Sam Harris
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.
— Bourdieu, Pierre
One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
— Billy Graham
I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
Death is the one friend who never fails any man.
— Evangeline Walton
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
— William S. Burroughs
When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
— Albert Einstein
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.
— Ana Monnar
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
— Thomas Browne
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
— Philip Yancey
Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.
— Charles Bukowski
Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
— Holly Black
Whose are all these ghosts?" she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
"Oh," said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine ... ? — Diane Hall
"Oh," said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine ... ? — Diane Hall
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]
— Virginia Woolf
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
— William Goldman
Death holds no fear for me. I shall conquer it as I conquer all things.
— Lesley Livingston
To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
— Frederick Buechner
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
— Rumi
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
You can not escape death: the end always reach you.
— Rachel Ward
I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.
— Munia Khan
In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music.
— Orson Scott Card
Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.
— Mahatma Gandhi
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Text messages are dying a funny kind of death.
— Anonymous
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca The Younger
I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.
— Christopher Moore