Quotes about death

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“Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.”

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”

“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”

“You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.”

“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?”

“… as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.”

“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”

“I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.”

“Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.”

“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”

“There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.”

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”

“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.”

“He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse…”

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”

“District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.”

“Life is stronger than death.”

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”

“I touched her thigh
and death smiled”

“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

“Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.”

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“People like death and mayhem.”

“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”

“Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432”

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”

“This morning Jackson had told Matthew, "You mention death one more time, and I"ll knock you into next week.?"
"Already been there," Matthew had answered.”

“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

“We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.”

“Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.”

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

“If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.”

“What do you want from me?” – Nick
“Normally, it’d be your life and your soul. Unfortunately, I can’t take either right now. Sucks to be me today.” – Death”

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.”

“The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"
"Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?”

“And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.”

“Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?”

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”

“This is not some silly game… This is life and death Angels and demons.”

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath, I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice.”

“Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)”

“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.”

“Even in death may you triumphant”

“Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”

“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”

“The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”

“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”

“Death wants to gank me. Must be Tuesday.”

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

“You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.”

“I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.”

“I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.”

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

“I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.”

“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.”

“Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said.”

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.”

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”

“to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.”

“The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.”

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

“Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?”

“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”

“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”

“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”

“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”

“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

“What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

“Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.”

“Dance with me, Death, I am ready.”

“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”

“You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.”

“Death always leaves one singer to mourn.”