Death Quotes
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
