Quotes about death

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“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis”

“The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.”

“Yeah, but I don’t want to be in pain, and I definitely don’t want to suffer.” – Nick
“Well…The only way to avoid them is to die.” – Death
“Okay, let’s change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken.” – Nick”

“The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement.”

“I will tell you something about stories… They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death."
He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?”

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.”

“Life is short, death is forever”

“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”

“That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
Clowns.”

“Everyone’s death means something”

“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”

“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death”

“I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.”

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

“I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.”

“I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad." -Jace”

“Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.”

“In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.”

“I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”

“Ice is for death and endings.”

“Death is a continuation of my life without me…”

“Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”

“You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come.”

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

“That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.”

“I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn't just an idea.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.”

“I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.”

“My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death…. and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

“Death is the reward for living”

“That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.”

“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.”

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death”

“I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.”

“Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death
“Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick
“What makes you think I don’t?” – Death”

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”

“The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch."

- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)”

“" screamed Picchu from somewhere in the background. "Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!”

“So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.

"This is death toast sweety.”

“We all owe death a life.”

“We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?”

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

“We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!”

“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

“I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now.”

“Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?”

“A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.”

“Child of lightning, beware the earth,
The giants' revenge the seven shall birth,
The forge and the dove shall break the cage,
And death unleash through Hera's rage.”

“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”

“Death is not goodbye.”

“the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.”

“Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”

“… women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps… they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.”

“The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option”

“Since when do we even play games?”

“Since when don’t we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between.”

I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. “Hello, Carter.”

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”

“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”

“The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.”

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”

“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”

“We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.”

“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”

“What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?”

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

“I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find… I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.”

“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”

“Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.”

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”

“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”

“There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her.. the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart.”

“Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”

“Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.”

“A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.”

“The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.”

“Jesus, you've got a death wish."
"Right now I have a bathroom-and-sleep-somewhere safe wish, kid.”

“A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.”

“echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.”

“Nico realized he was still leaning against Will. He pushed him away and stood on his own two feet.
‘I’ll do what I need to.’
Will rolled his eyes. ‘Fine, Death Boy. If you want to get yourself killed –’
‘Do not call me Death Boy!”

“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”

“One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I willhave you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.”

“Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.”

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I…”

“Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula”