Death Quotes
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Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I don't know what God is. I don't know what death is. But I believe they have between them some fervent and necessary arrangement.
Mary Oliver
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If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
Ernest Legouve
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The old man murmured: 'Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.'
Poul Anderson
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What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world.
T. B. Joshua
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Two children die. An accident and a suicide amongst so many murders. A chance death and a death of self-recrimination. Smut and the Skipping Girl have been aping their parents and elders - perhaps they could now teach them a lesson - all the machinations and game-playing and adjusting for sexual and emotional positioning is not worth the effort.
Peter Greenaway
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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
Edward Joseph Young
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We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
Jonathan Kozol
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Oh! that fear When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.
George Croly
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I have told you that upon physical death the ego becomes the subconscious in the next existence, and that its conscious knowing is retained electromagnetically.
Jane Roberts
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The vastness and deadly desolation of the field, the long-distance operation of steel machines, and the relay of every movement in the night drew an unyielding Titan’s mask over the proceedings. You moved toward death without seeing it; you were hit without knowing where the shot came from. Long since had the precision shooting of the trained marksman, the direct fire of guns, and with it the charm of the duel, given way to the concentrated fire of mechanized weapons. The outcome was a game of numbers: Whoever could cover a certain number of square meters with the greater mass of artillery fire, won.
Ernst Junger
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How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S. I. Hayakawa
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Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
Mac Miller
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean de la Bruyere
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
Bill Vaughan
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We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
Conn Iggulden
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Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
Katherine Paterson
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You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff
Emily Bronte
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Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.
Becky Fischer
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
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The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?
Pawel Pawlikowski
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As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
David Pajo
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I'm not afraid of death.
Maurice Sendak