Top 100 Death But Quotes
#1. Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
Gaston Leroux
#2. Look here, before you and around you! There is not a grain of sand that has not been bathed in blood, and what is that grain of sand itself, if not the dust of death? But how rich this blood is, and how fertile is the dust!
Octave Mirbeau
#3. To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts
Kai McCarthy
#4. Pen and paper have been my life, now they may herald my death. But I asked for these, the traditional tools of my trade, and to my surprise my request has been granted.
Susan Leona Fisher
#5. When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.
Chris Crutcher
#6. We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#7. I could have been leading him to his death, but I could tell Tyler Maddox was afraid of nothing.
Jamie McGuire
#8. Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
John Donne
#9. I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#10. My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
Carol Bartz
#11. But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#12. The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.
N. T. Wright
#13. Survival is running from death.
Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try!
Fereidoon Yazdi
#14. Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#15. It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey
#16. Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#18. Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.
Sathya Sai Baba
#19. [C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
Truman Capote
#20. The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.
Santosh Kalwar
#21. He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying before he accomplished his purposes.
Brent Weeks
#22. It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.
Steven Lopez
#23. To be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death - or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.
Eoin Colfer
#24. Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#25. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anonymous
#26. Option 1: Attempt to back out.
Probable result: Death after painful torture.
Option 2: Do the job and hope.
Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
Nalini Singh
#27. Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Brennan Manning
#28. To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.
Robin Hobb
#29. The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl ...
Abigail Padgett
#30. Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
David Gemmell
#31. He thought it was funny that she could hack a bloodthirsty demon to death, but something as natural as having a baby made her quake. Not that Kynan blamed her. He'd happily choose taking a bullet to the gut over squeezing a bowling ball out of his ass. Women were amazing.
Larissa Ione
#33. What is death but the opportunity for a new beginning?
Tami Egonu
#34. There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
Helen Rowland
#35. You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
Kahlil Gibran
#36. We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Orson Scott Card
#37. They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
E. M. Forster
#38. The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes "does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live."6
Brigid Schulte
#39. had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man
Ray Bradbury
#40. We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
Anthony Kiedis
#41. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
John Of Kronstadt
#42. But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.
John Wyndham
#43. Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.
Shirin Ebadi
#44. You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death ... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui.
Tom Holt
#45. Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.
Joseph Murphy
#46. Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.
Merle Shain
#47. Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
Shimon Peres
#48. I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.
Marty Rubin
#49. A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Hester Lynch Piozzi
#50. We can what if ourselves to death, but it won't do anything. The only thing we can do is keep moving even when it feels like you're walking through a pit of cement.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#51. Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.
Don Rickles
#52. The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
Philippe Sollers
#53. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#54. I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer
Seneca.
#55. Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.
Bette Greene
#56. The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
Norman Cousins
#57. I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
Katy Butler
#58. Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility
Milly Williamson
#59. It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.
Charles Dickens
#60. Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
William Goldman
#61. We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.
Gary Kowalski
#62. Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#63. The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive
Norman
#64. It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
Brian Welch
#65. Bodies lay everywhere, in grotesque attitudes of violent death, but manifesting the miracle of life in a snore, a mutter, the flight of a bubble from the lips.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#66. Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
John Donne
#67. There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
Elizabeth Inchbald
#68. And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
Frank Herbert
#69. Fame - fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.
Keith Gessen
#70. We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.
Katherine Paterson
#71. Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.
Peter Benchley
#74. Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.
Mohamed Atta
#75. I'm not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I'm an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.
Abbi Glines
#76. I didn't revel in death, but I didn't hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.
Roshani Chokshi
#77. Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
Gregory Bateson
#78. - Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like?
- Comic. Terror is forgotten.
Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity.
Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvation
Is one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year.
Czeslaw Milosz
#79. I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow
Simone Elkeles
#80. Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#81. We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Seneca The Younger
#82. The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.
Raheel Farooq
#83. To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ROMANS 8:6
Stormie O'martian
#84. What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.
Rama Swami
#85. Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.
Atul Gawande
#86. I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.
Joseph Hall
#87. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
Beth Moore
#88. I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door,
Donna Tartt
#89. We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.
John Roberts
#90. There are wars, there is pain, there is suffering, and there is even death. But none of these things prepare you for Monday morning.
William Wallace
#91. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
John Irving
#92. O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?
Angela Of Foligno
#93. Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
Henrik Ibsen
#94. Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation.
Jim Hinckley
#95. There is no greater terror than the fear of death. But, as a Christian, you are learning to die daily. Thus, when the actual time comes for your spirit to leave your body, you will have already gained the victory over its sting.
Alicia A. Willis
#96. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#97. They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.
Radclyffe Hall
#99. He understood the half-life of hope: it is not despair that destroys us, but its opposite. Hope is the winding, despair the unwinding. Despair brings with it the possibility of an ending. Taken to the extreme, its logical conclusion is death. But hope sustains. It can be exploited. Ormsby
John Connolly
#100. With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'
Arthur Caplan
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