Quotes about death

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“Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.”

“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

“The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity”

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”

“Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him.
I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.”

“Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like”

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

“Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.”

“Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”

“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

“It is said that in death, all things become clear.”

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

“Death never comes at thetime, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”

“… I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”

“People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.”

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

“Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.”

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.

“No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.”

“Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.
Death on her left.
Devil on her right.”

“Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

“Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.”

“You only delay your death.

"Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.”

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

“To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”

“He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.”

“Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”

“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.”

“Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what'sis this - my death.”

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

“Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.”

“They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.”

“We think of mortality so little these days…
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be…”

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

“Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.”

“All that is not God is death.”

“Death is the only god that comes when you call.”

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”

“I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“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.”

“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”

“Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.”

“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.”

“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”

“If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.”

“People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.”

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

“Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)”

“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

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

“Give me B movies or give me death!”

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death”

“If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then belike we must sin,
And so consequently die.
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.”

“He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls”

“And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”

“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

“War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.”

“Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.”

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

“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.”

“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.”

“Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.”

“Excuse me, have you seen Death? Big guy with black feathery wings? Likes to reap souls?”

“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.”

“I was a fight to the death, and I felt great.”

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”

“Death means you are in the third person.”

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”