Death Quotes
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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.
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Life is a death-defying experience.
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That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me.
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.
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Bible’s Song of Solomon, “Love is strong as death.” Or perhaps even stronger.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
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To take arms against a sea of troubles.
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Beat it to death if it succeeds.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.
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We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers. In battle our world shrank to the man on our left and the man on our right and the enemy all around. We held each other’s lives in our hands and we learned to share our fears, our hopes, our dreams as readily as we shared what little else good came our way.
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I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
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If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
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That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family.
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I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
