Death Quotes
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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.
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You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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After death there is nothing.
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Death is so unpredictable, it just happens - so suddenly. Death doesn't differentiate between young or old. Be prepared.
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The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
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Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.
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My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it. All I can do is wait for it.
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I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
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The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
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For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
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Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.
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We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
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Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
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Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.
