Death Quotes
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
Carson McCullers
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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.
George Eliot
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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.
Esther Meynell
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University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.
Kate Cruise O'Brien
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
Stevie Smith
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Death is not the worst sorrow.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.
Caroline Anne Southey
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?
Thomas Carlyle
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
Bill Gates
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
Ray Bradbury
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I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
Brenda Fricker
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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
Jostein Gaarder
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Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.
Ben Miller
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The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.
Catherine Fisher
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This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make the living. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.
Elizabeth Scott
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And I love Evander Holyfield to death!
Ray Lewis
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck
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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
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You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
Eloisa James
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Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
Anthony Robbins