Death Quotes
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In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she'd be with Dad again.
Clayton Christensen
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What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. … one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable.
Plutarch
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I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
James Thomson
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A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
(an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.
Lord Byron
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
Randy Pausch
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There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
Anne Carson
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.
Emil Cioran
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Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
H. P. Blavatsky
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Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
Kiki Smith
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When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
Amy Hill Hearth
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill
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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
Colleen McCullough
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Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
Nalini Singh
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The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
Fanny Kemble
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Grief is itself a medicine.
William Cowper
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
William Hazlitt
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Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
C. Douglas Payne
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"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself.
The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?
William Bennett
