Top 91 Death Is Final Quotes
#1. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
Phil Gramm
#2. Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
Natascha McElhone
#3. Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!
Sharon Gannon
#4. Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.
Corinne Michaels
#5. Shouldn't we carry on living the same way until the last, because that is what vexes death the most - to see us drinking life to the final draft?
Nina George
#6. Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days.
Garth Nix
#7. Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.
Kevin Focke
#9. Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#10. Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!
Evinda Lepins
#11. Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
Edward Abbey
#12. My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
Thomas Dewey
#14. A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
Jose Saramago
#16. When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#17. Death is pretty final./I'm collecting vinyl./I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world/'cause if heaven does exists/with a kickin' playlist/I don't wanna miss it at the end of the world
Michael Stipe
#18. Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.
Sufjan Stevens
#19. Suicide is a symptom of depression. That struck me as odd. I think of a sore throat as a symptom, or a headache, but death? Death as a symptom is too final. You're obviously not going to recover - the symptom is bigger than the disease.
Marshall Thornton
#21. Because life is a game and we're all just trading cards. We play the right hand to get ahead." I studied the smiling, ignorant face of Sal as he stared at his bride. "Death stops the game. It's too final, too inflexible. Death is viciously stubborn.
Karina Halle
#22. What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday it will end...that someday, we will have earned final rest.
Annette Marie
#23. Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
Agustin Gomez-Arcos
#24. To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.
Mary Ellen Chase
#25. Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
#26. I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.
George Wald
#27. The final desire of any warrior is a good death.
Lance Conrad
#28. The grave is not a final destination of man but just a resting place for a while.
Auliq Ice
#29. Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information you taught those seventh graders year after year, but never any unit on death? No exercises, no workbooks, no final exams on the only subject that matters?
Nicole Krauss
#31. The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.
Billy Graham
#32. Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.
Ernest Hemingway,
#33. If you can bring some quality to the last moment of transition from wakefulness to sleep, that quality will continue through sleep, always. That's exactly what will happen with death also. If at the final moment a certain quality is brought in, that quality will continue.
Sadhguru
#34. What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian McKellen
#36. Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities.
George R R Martin
#37. From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.
Tess Gerritsen
#38. What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.
Millicent Fawcett
#39. Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
Mother Teresa
#40. He's no Turner Campbell, but the kiss is different than anything I've ever felt before. It's like kissing death, but in a good way. Like having a bite of that final rest, tasting soothing comfort and reassurance.
C.M. Stunich
#41. Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
George R R Martin
#43. I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
Robert Tappan Morris
#44. There is no more final end than death.
John Thaw
#45. The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#46. The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.
Stokely Carmichael
#47. The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen.
William L. Lane
#49. If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.
Michael Portillo
#50. Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final
Rita Stradling
#51. Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
Ronald Blythe
#52. Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.
Shane Warren Jones
#53. There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.
R. Alan Woods
#54. Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.
Bethany Chase
#55. Any way, death is so final, isn't it?
"Is it?" asked Richard.
"Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.
Neil Gaiman
#56. Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.
Steven Magee
#57. I thought if you knew. you'd kill him.
I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is - his lips twisted - it's so final.
Marie Treanor
#58. What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you.
Jackson Lanzing
#59. Death is the final chapter in a book you can't unread. You keep waiting to feel like the person you were before that chapter ended. You never will.
Karen Marie Moning
#60. Death is the best healing of all, so try not to worry about it. When we die, that's the final, permanent healing. Our old body finally dies and we are rid of it and free. Then we don't have any more diseases or troubles. We won't hurt anymore because we will be in our spiritual body, our new model!
David Berg
#61. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.
Jacob M. Appel
#62. I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.
Crystal Evans
#64. The Middle East is now filled with death and destruction and that was the aim of Neo-Conservatives who planned this destruction of seven Muslim nations in five years and they are on schedule and the final nation in their sights to destroy is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Louis Farrakhan
#67. I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#68. 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
#69. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'
Dave Gahan
#70. I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying 'This, too, shall pass.' For a time, we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal.
Ahdaf Soueif
#71. Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
#72. The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?
Julian Barnes
#73. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.
N. T. Wright
#74. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.
Catherine Marshall
#76. Death is a part of the orderly process of human life. There is nothing as final as extinction.
James Morris Robinson
#77. Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death.
Siri Hustvedt
#78. To only see 'death' in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see 'life' in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Walter Scott
#80. Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I would hesitate to wish it hastened upon anyone.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#81. The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. She sent Death a thought, one she hoped would be her final gift. The Game means something only because we lose. That is your gift to humans. So thank you.
Martha Brockenbrough
#83. To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#84. Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#85. Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
Debasish Mridha
#86. It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal
their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
Brigham Young
#87. I never imagined that something as solemn and final as death could be this idiotic. It was the keyhole through which I first glimpsed life's madness: the
institutions we believe in will pervert us, our loved ones will fail us, and death is a falling piano.
Anthony Marra
#90. It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.
Kathryn Craft
#91. It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.
Richard Flanagan
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