Death Quotes
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The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
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Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
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Death's long anabasis.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Life for the living, and rest for the dead!
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
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Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
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I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were 'The Death of Manolete' and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I'd look with slanted eyelids.
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Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
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Death is senseless yet makes way for the living.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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It contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love. please know that you had mine, unconditional, and powerful and awesome. So strong that I can't believe it will die with me. I want to imagine it as a living thing that goes beyond my body and my death, as a vine that has grown and wound its way through the very core of you all, and cannot be uprooted or destroyed, but rather will hold you erect when everything else is crumbling and withering inside you.
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I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.
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On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children: A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
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Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?
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Take me away from all this Death.
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I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
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'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
