Death Quotes

• It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Gratitude

• You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

  

  Michael Anthony Van Halen
  • War
  • Death
  • Dream

• I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Considered
  • Glittering

• Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

  

  Tacitus
  • Death
  • Fire

• Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.

  

  Nathalia Crane
  • Death
  • Rose
  • Tomb

• The young boy whistles, hurrying down the street,The young girl hums beneath her breath.One goes out to beauty, and does not know it.And one goes out to death.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Boy

• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Discovered

• I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

  

  Cedric Richmond
  • Forget
  • Neighbors
  • Catastrophe

• I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

  

  Lincoln Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Boy

• The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • World
  • Trying
  • Doe

• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • People
  • Mother
  • Death

• Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Death
  • Suffering

• It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Age
  • Death
  • Devils

• Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Death
  • Suspense
  • Conclude

• The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

  

  Luke Scott
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Hurt
  • Wounded
  • Hunter

• Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Cold

• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Dreams
  • Poison

• The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Life
  • Country
  • Death

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Economy
  • Break
  • Depth

• Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Death
  • Sibling

• My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Goal
  • Loneliness
  • Affection

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