Top 100 Death Comes Quotes
#1. When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
Lady Gregory
#2. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.
Kjell Eriksson
#3. Death comes to those who wait. And to those who don't. So either way ... - CHARLOTTE JEAN DAVIDSON, GRIM REAPER
Darynda Jones
#4. The important thing is to make sure that when death comes, it finds us still alive.
Fausto Brizzi
#5. Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.
Sara Quin
#6. Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
Robert Bolt
#7. When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
Andrew Jackson
#8. What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'
James Belushi
#9. Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.
Lu Yen-hsun
#11. Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.
Nana Awere Damoah
#12. Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one..
Janet Morris
#13. Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.
Propertius
#14. Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.
Aleksandar Hemon
#15. How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.
Kellie Elmore
#16. We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?
Masashi Kishimoto
#17. Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
Thomas Boston
#18. In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.
Emily Thorne
#19. Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I."
"And that doesn't frighten you?"
Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it.
V.E Schwab
#20. Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#21. When death comes, she said, all that matters is this: to be next to one another. My mother was wearing a silk dress, and as she pressed her fingers into his, all of my father's adventures and hard living melted away. He knew that he had met the woman he would love until he couldn't love anymore.
Hannah Tinti
#22. Have patience, Margaret, and trouble not thyself. Death comes for us all; even at our birth - death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature and the will of God.
Robert Bolt
#23. When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.
Graciela Iturbide
#25. When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order.
Chris Cleave
#26. I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.
Carrie Ryan
#27. Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. One of the fathers saith ... that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
Francis Bacon
#30. We are sisters. Despite all we've been through, all that we have held against each other, we are sisters until death comes for us.
Marie Lu
#31. Earthly life is a temporary phenomenon only", Jesus said thoughtfully. "Death comes sooner or later to all mortals. It is honour that is the eternal thing. I asked you not about your life, but about your honour and your good name.
Viktor Shel
#32. In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.
Mohammed Omar
#34. The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
Robert Frost
#35. Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.
Richard Ramirez
#36. Then I remember: death comes before the rolling away of the stone.
Mary Oliver
#38. Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.
Tom Stoppard
#39. The places where death comes to take love away, where we lose each other and lose ourselves; that's where the connections begin. It takes a brave soul to look there and not despair."
"I've tried to be brave," she said.
"I know," he said softly. "I know.
Clive Barker
#40. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#41. Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
Phoebe Cary
#44. In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
Tomas Transtromer
#45. By the power that Christ wrought from heaven, mayst thou love me. As the sun follows its course, mayst thou follow me. As light to the eye, as bread to the hungry, as joy to the heart, may thy presence be with me, oh one that I love, 'til death comes to part us asunder.
Laura Frantz
#46. When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
#48. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
#49. No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Hermann Broch
#50. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...
Carmen Laforet
#51. Hand of iron! Head of iron! Heart of iron!" And he lashed blindly with his sword over the shield wall. "Your death comes, sang the hundred!
Joe Abercrombie
#52. First my husband, then my parents died. After that I lost my two sisters. When death comes to someone's home it's as if it wants to get as much done as quickly as possible to save coming again for a long time.
Guy De Maupassant
#53. Death comes to us all. Press me again and you shall find yours.
Spartacus
#54. When death comes ... .
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what it's going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
Mary Oliver
#55. Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
Henry Van Dyke
#56. Always remember that fate uses us to its own ends, but it will never take away our right to decide. Choose wisely, and choose quickly. Death comes swiftly to those who tarry in the middle of the road.
Ken Lozito
#57. Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Robert Jordan
#58. People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
Thomas Perez
#60. I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade
#61. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#62. After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
Anna McPartlin
#63. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.
Jocelyn Gibb
#64. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Gautama Buddha
#65. Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
Martin Scorsese
#66. Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.
John Marsden
#67. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.
Euripides
#68. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.
Suzannah Rowntree
#69. I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.
Laura Lippman
#70. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
Swami Vivekananda
#71. Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
Hosea Ballou
#72. A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end.
Agatha Christie
#73. Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#74. Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)
Nalini Singh
#75. Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.
Brian Jacques
#76. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.
Laozi
#77. Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."
Janet Morris
#78. The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves.
Tara Brown
#79. So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
Epicurus
#80. Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.-RVM
R.v.m.
#81. Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
#84. There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt ... but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.
George R R Martin
#87. ...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.
Socrates
#88. You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
Yann Martel
#89. When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
Mason Cooley
#90. Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.
B.G. Bowers
#91. If {Death} comes for you?" he said. "Would you be so sanguine then?"
She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. "No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.
Kij Johnson
#92. I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.
Benazir Bhutto
#93. Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
Lian Hearn
#95. All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes.
Mary Stewart
#96. No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck
#97. I told her I don't think grief is a price we pay for love, but rather that it is a part of love. When death comes, I think the grief is to be experienced the way the joy was experienced before - and if we experience it intimately, grief and joy are not separate, and both are love.
Barry Graham
#98. Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.
Allen Ginsberg
#99. He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths.
Billy Graham
#100. Death comes as it pleases; it is no respecter of persons leaving memories and a fading sound of a familiar voice.
Jonah Books
