Quotes about death
Lilly Ghalichi -
Angel exists and I believe in angels but I'm not an angel no one can be an angel just we can be straight.
Stephen Levine - A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.' They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason they just love.
Margo T. Rose - The Words
Did you say all that you meant toBefore the curtain closed?Or did you feel so much moreThan we'll ever know?You were an amazing personOne of the very best.You were here for part of my storyI wish you could hear the rest.I miss your smile mostThe smile you had for all.Now I can only see itIn pictures on the wall.
Thomas Carlyle - The Works of Thomas Carlyle - Volume 26
One life a little gleam of Time between two Eternities no second chance to us for evermore!
James Fenton -
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
Erica Jong -
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.
Frank Black -
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
Joaquin Phoenix -
I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Walter Dean Myers -
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
Giada De Laurentiis -
Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
Robert Smith -
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
Brigitte Bardot -
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Jason Isbell -
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.
Annie Dillard -
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
James Blunt -
I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.
Julie Burchill -
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Ashley Bell -
Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
Jenna McCarthy -
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
Kirk Hammett -
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
J.R. Johansson - Cut Me Free
Everything I've ever known is death and pain being drenched in life feels good.
M.F. Moonzajer -
I don’t think women are made only for sex they can turn men into wolves and make them fight till the death.
Abhysheq Shukla - KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
Idries Shah - Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit
Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly without first having to lose one’s life.
Naveed A. Khan -
People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves they do not look beautiful when they fall.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Time is a double-edged sword: while it might heal all wounds it also kills all the healed.
Munia Khan -
A farewell to my shadow is not my death it’s my rebirth in darkness.
Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourboneswhen you're oldit's justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.
Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes
Death is not the end of life it is only the gateway to eternity.
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Horror on earth is real and it is everyday. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons but a soul that is lost through death may not have the chance to justify its potential again!
Dave Matthes - the Bastard
That's the beautiful thing about innocence even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
Dean Koontz - Odd Hours
A part of me knew... from the moment I saw herher death would have been one wound too many that day.
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing he was not about to powder its nose.
Aditya Ajmera -
We are sailing in different boats and possibly we may possess a superior boat but we must remember that we share the same river called life and death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued another organism’s life has to be discontinued.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
There two separates world life and dead!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death the modern man's worst fear is just death
Carl Sagan - Cosmos
The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment and time for a long succession of small mutations.
Donna Grant - Dark Alpha's Claim
Death was the judge. The Reapers were the executioners. Death was the one who decided who the Reapers would visit and exact their justice.The Reapers answered to just one entity - Death.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
His crucifixion is the key His resurrection is the door... it is only by his death that we have the mandate to enter into the gates of eternal life. His doors are open always. Christ is king!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Show your compassion to people in their life time no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
Glorious death is a transition into heavenly glories “purposeless life” is the cause of shameful death and shameful death is a transition to eternal doom!
Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants
Age isn't stealing from my grandmother it's slowly unwinding her.
Brandon M. Herbert - Walking Wolf Road
Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love cleaving the heart they held with their passing.
Augusten Burroughs -
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker it can make you deeper.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Don’t wait for the last hour of life to do the things you wish to do.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Would we believe their story if the dead should return?
Nicolas Poussin -
We have nothing that is really our own we hold everything as a loan.
Aaron B. Powell - Voluntary
I’m just happy to have experienced life to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.
Marilyn French -
And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
Bamigboye Olurotimi -
Don’t give up on trying everyday those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.
Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin
I lived my grief I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.
Aleister Crowley - Diary of a Drug Fiend
I do not think we were afraid of death life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed.
John Boyne - The Thief of Time
And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Man is mortal we are dust and to dust we shall return
Primo Levi - If This Is a Man / The Truce
The living are more demanding the dead can wait.
Eric F. Saucier -
Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / GodAnd the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man.
Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
Christmas Humphreys - The Buddhist Way Of Life
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
Ellen J. Barrier -
The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death and fight for hope through despair to possess the will to live.
Gayendra Abeywardane - Crocodile Chamber
Death kept waiting for its second course on the kitchen floor but Amila’s morals struggled to prepare its main meal.
Laurell K. Hamilton - Dead Ice
You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.
Ann Marlowe - How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
Never has nostalgia held stronger sway never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
Marcus Aurelius -
Death smiles at us all all we can do is smile back.
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
How quickly he fell how soon it was over.
Criss Jami - Healology
Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind as are the legacies of those who flow with them.
Anthony Liccione -
Live a life of lies die a death of truths.
Marty Rubin -
Death kills us once worry kills us every day.
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
It is uncertain where Death will await youthere expect it everywhere.
Lauren Oliver - and Raven
What glitters may not be gold and even wolves may smile and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
Israelmore Ayivor -
The menopause of Sarah became her menostart this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God's word is a life of miraculous beauty!
Duane Hewitt -
Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge.
Zeina Kassem - Crossing
I feel like my life is made up of tiny puzzle parts that no longer fit together. Imagine working on a puzzle only to find that the final picture can never be complete because one of its pieces is missing. This is exactly what's happened to my life it has become impossible to put it back together.
Thomas Wolfe -
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Alexandra Fuller -
I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
Adam Silvera - History Is All You Left Me
Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
Jean Racine -
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Rabindranath Tagore -
when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
The evil that men do lives after themThe good is oft interred with their bones.
A. Sachs -
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Chelsie Shakespeare -
I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from I knew where I was going.
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Cover her face mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
John Donne - No man is an island – A selection from the prose
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls it tolls for thee.
Honoré de Balzac -
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
Craig Ferguson - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Ros was dead.He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining he was the first of my friends to fall.
Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
MaryJanice Davidson - Faeries Gone Wild
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.
Gillian Flynn - Dark Places
It is always consoling to think of suicideit's what gets one through many a bad night.
Stéphane Audeguy - The Theory of Clouds
What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.
Sorin Cerin - Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love otherwise it will become a desert.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
Alison Sinclair - Shadowborn
I'm not courting death I've far too many books left to read.
Lauren DeStefano -
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Christopher Hitchens - Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
Forget it. Never explain never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
Andrew Murray - Jesus Himself
A dead Christ I must do everything for a living Christ does everything for me.