Death Quotes
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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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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
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We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
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We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.
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... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.
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To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
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U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
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Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
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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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War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
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I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
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Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.
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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
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We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.
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Death cancels all engagements.
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If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
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The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
