Death Quotes

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger ha...

You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive ...

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zap...

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

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

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it...

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.""Sure and show me the person's...

Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of som...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead...

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clou...

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

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We m...

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, ...

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No,...

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a...

Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution.

In the middle of life, death comesto take your measurements. The visitis forgotten and life goes on....

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the h...

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fasc...

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life ...

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolut...

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty...

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you li...

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does ...

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the ...

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you...

The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground o...

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they ...

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the univ...

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than lov...

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the l...

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on...

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the ma...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...

...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, sav...

The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life...

They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal ...

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath th...

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. Th...

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capa...

The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the ear...

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fat...

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freed...

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any...

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time ...

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse...

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave ...

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves i...

You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured ...

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feeling...

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always...

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've ...

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm su...

So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down a...

I see black light (his last words)

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last ...

On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Wh...

He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope...

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and d...

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, wi...

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto ver...

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor ...

Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is th...

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor ...

A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The port...

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

How can non-existence get sick of itself?Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

La tristesse durera toujours.]

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

Death's brother, sleep.

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be...

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw com...