Quotes about death

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“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.”

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

“The demigods have left for alaska," Stheno said. "They fly straight to their death. Ah, small "d" death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.”

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.”

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”

“I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”

“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”

“Memory is identity…. You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.”

“Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I’d missed my buddies!”

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”

“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

“…. it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.”

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

“Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.”

“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

“The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.”

“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

“I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.”
“Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.”

“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”

“I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between”

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”

“I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn; t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.”

“Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.”

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind”

“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”

“There would be no chance to get to know death at all… if it happened only once.”

“Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.”

“Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.”

“We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.”

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

“Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked.

"No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.”

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.”

“Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.”

“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”

“Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.”

“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]”

“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”

“I can promise you that the world is a factory.  The sun stirs it, the humans rule it.  And I remain.  I carry them away.- spoken by death”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that."
-Julian”

“For love is as strong as death.”

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“I need some Starbucks. What about you? (Cassandra)
Always game for java. Give me ground-up beans or give me death. (Katra)”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”

“Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.”

“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

“Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”

“I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.”
“You must be fun at parties,” I said.”

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

“The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?”

“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

“… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

“You can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.”

“Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.”

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

“I hope that death contains
less than this.”

“Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”