Death Quotes
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I am surrounded by death, inside and out, and all it does is remind me of how futile everything is, everything ever was.
Beth Revis
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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'.
Erma Bombeck
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Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Death is always a hard thing, those are things that unfortunately we are met with in life. No matter how much they tell us it’s going to happen, I believe none of us are truly prepared to feel that way about anything.
Terrace Martin
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Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.
John O. Brennan
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Whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the Lord; But those who miss me injure themselves; All who hate me love death.
Bart Ehrman
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When he comes around. Do not tell him nothing. Do not make a sound. Cos if he knows we're there he might tear his heart out. And beat us to death with it.
Pete Yorn
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Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
Brennan Manning
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
George Eliot
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
Thomas More
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I'm not really obsessed with death.
Robert Smith The Cure
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
Jane Austen
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
Jim Harrison
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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.
Jon Katz
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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.
Edwin Newman
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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.
Charles Dickens
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To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.
Cleve Jones
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Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
Ardel Wray
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Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.
Homer
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
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For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
Joseph Brodsky
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So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.
Elijah