Top 100 Death Like Quotes
#1. A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life.
John Milton
#2. Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.
Leah Raeder
#4. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
Eduardo Galeano
#6. The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now?
Ray Bradbury
#7. Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new.
Amy Levy
#8. To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.
Albert Einstein
#9. Why do we make it all seem like a crisis, over and over again? Why do we worry it all to death, like dogs with socks or chew-toys? 'Look at it this way ... In a hundred years? - All new people.
Anne Lamott
#10. She has already been sentenced to death, like every Mortal.
Kami Garcia
#11. Just like that - in one apocalyptic moment - simple and beautiful. A birth. But also a kind of death. Like lightning in a storm. In one flash of light, the whole desert was lit, and you could see the universe. That's what she had seen - the universe in the hands of a child feeling the face of a man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#12. Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away: our life's a dream, ...
Isaac Watts
#14. Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger
Janet Fitch
#15. Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#16. As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
Dustin Yellin
#17. Lights, bright enough to dilate her eyes. Horns, flaccid and come too late. Metal crumpling like tissue. The body was not in pain but only because the body was gone, elsewhere. Yes, Daniel thinks just after impact but before death, like that. The passage hadn't been as bad as he had thought.
Gabrielle Zevin
#18. Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.
Hans Fallada
#19. I then supped with my companions, with whom I was soon after to part for ever - always a most melancholly, death-like idea - a sort of separation of soul; for all the regret which follows those from whom fate separates us, seems to be something torn from ourselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#20. I think my strength comes from being an insane drunk. Near death. Wanting death like a lover every day for years. My talent comes from madness - having survived madness.
Dan Fante
#21. Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged.
Elise Forier Edie
#22. You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it
Birdman
#23. Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
Janet Morris
#24. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#25. People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
Ajahn Chah
#26. Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then
Robert E. Howard
#28. Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#29. We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.
George Orwell
#31. The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
J.B. Priestley
#32. she hadn't starved to death like they had expected her to, and she hadn't crawled back to them for help either. It gave her satisfaction to know her parents were irked by this. They had fully expected her to fail and run back home, begging them to take her back.
Ania Ahlborn
#33. Then, after a long fireside rest and a glance at my note-book, I cut a few leafy branches for a bed, and fell into the clear, death-like sleep of the tired mountaineer. Early
John Muir
#34. One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.
Lenny Kravitz
#35. I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.
Holly Hood
#36. I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants.
Edmund Kemper
#37. there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.
Charles Bukowski
#38. Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
#39. Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil
only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#40. Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;
For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.
William Shakespeare
#41. Esther loses her virginity, hemorrhages during the process, and almost bleeds to death - like Catherine in A Farewell to Arms - and I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature.
Matthew Quick
#42. My Lord ... what is Death like?" called the old man tremulously.
"When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know," came the faintest of modulations on the breeze.
"Yes," murmured the Loremaster. A thought struck him. "During daylight, please," he added.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Hemingway reached over and took Elsie's hand. "Do you know Dylan Thomas? I have always admired his take on death. Like he, I intend to go raging against the dying of the light." "Dear,
Homer Hickam
#44. Goes like a Magician soona without a wings and soon he will follow his own death like Houdini.
Deyth Banger
#45. Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar.
Karin Slaughter
#46. When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.
Victoria Woodhull
#47. She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
Jodi Picoult
#48. When we allow the walls around our hearts to become rigid, and stay that way, we assign ourselves a slow death. Like the very air and water that flows through our physical body to sustain it, love must flow through our heart to keep it supple, and to keep us truly alive.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#49. To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
Brian Jones
#50. Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Rabindranath Tagore
#51. Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
Will Durant
#52. When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.
Thomas H. Cook
#53. I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
Sara Gruen
#54. Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
Andre Comte-Sponville
#55. Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#56. Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
Woodrow Wilson
#57. Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
Charles Spurgeon
#58. ...it made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death like that, I could think: I have set me life in order.
Alexander McCall Smith
#59. Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Sarah Addison Allen
#60. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#61. The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#62. Death, like birth, is a secret of nature." Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket with death too, but they call it a shroud and everyone else gets the bottle.
Richard Kadrey
#63. Death isn't the end of peril. There are deaths beyond death. Like it or not, death isn't the end of anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. I think you talk big," said Pleasant. "I think you talk about death like it's your friend. But if you really want to get acquainted, we can help you with that.
Derek Landy
#65. Animals don't seem to fear death like we do. I believe they know they're going to a better place, they're going home;
David Wells
#66. It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger.
M.R. Carey
#67. He has only as much ground as his two feet take up, only as much of a hold as his two hands encompass - someone who falls asleep in the winter snow to freeze to death like a child, someone who does nothing but takes walks, yet who could take them anywhere, without moving.
Franz Kafka
#68. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#69. There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
John F. Kerry
#70. Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely
Erich Maria Remarque
#71. It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!
Wladyslaw Szpilman
#72. And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
William Ernest Henley
#73. One of the Taliban spokesmen said they have thousands of men who look forward to death like Americans look forward to living, which is great because we can arrange that. We'll set them up with death, we'll continue living.
Jay Leno
#74. After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.
Nevil Shute
#75. Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
William Cobbett
#76. Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
Alexandre Dumas
#77. A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche ... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water ... The psyche lusts to be wet.
Heraclitus
#78. Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Frances Moore Lappe
#79. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
Walter Mosley
#80. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Frank Herbert
#81. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#82. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#83. The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.
Dean Koontz
#85. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#86. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
Richard M. Nixon
#87. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.
Kate DiCamillo
#88. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.
J.C. Ryle
#90. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#91. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
Timothy Keller
#92. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
Isaac Jogues
#93. As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#94. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you.
Paula Hawkins
#95. When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.
Cassandra Clare
#96. Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death.
Steve Toltz
#97. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Diana Wynne Jones
#98. You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.
Alexandra Ivy
#99. Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.
Dogen
#100. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.
Don DeLillo
