Death Quotes
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
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I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
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His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure – all the more intense for being held tightly in – his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
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It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.
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I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
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Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.
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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.
