Death Someone Quotes

#1. The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Steven Moffat

#2. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

David Levithan

#3. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

Doug Stanhope

#4. You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#5. The was something about churches that she found unsettling. Everything seemed overly concerned with death, as if someone had forgotten that the basis of the religion for which they'd been built was a rebirth.

Melissa Grey

#6. Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Billy Graham

#7. If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?

Robin LaFevers

#8. I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

Alan Ladd

#9. I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

Karin Slaughter

#10. If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

William H Gass

#11. I just want to die knowing that I've made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

Eloise Dyson

#12. I don't want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have been welcomed into a club only the saddest people can enter. The cost of admission is the death of your loved one at the hands of someone else.

Dave Cullen

#13. She was scared to death. She was killed by her beliefs. By someone taking advantage of them.

Louise Penny

#14. When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Joan Didion

#15. Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

Robert Hass

#16. Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Joe Abercrombie

#17. To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

Alison Owen

#18. When someone dear to you is lost within the arms of the heaven,they tell you to live without them. But when someone sucks the oxygen out of you, no one can dare to ask you to live without them.

Andy Flynn

#19. The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead

Alan Dean Foster

#20. Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.

M.E. Vaughan

#21. It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Will Schwalbe

#22. Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green

#23. If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.

Emery Lord

#24. Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.

Rosamund Lupton

#26. Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of
they might be a ghost.

Andrew W.K.

#27. Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")

Richard Matheson

#28. It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#29. Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk.
"What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad," Eve decided.

J.D. Robb

#30. A certain song can mean the difference between life and death for someone who is depressed and suicidal. Music can inspire and give hope. It can show adulation and worship and praise love and people.

Katie Ashley

#31. Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

Evelyn Waugh

#32. When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Meg Cabot

#33. That is the only sure way of knowing we have made someone happy: making someone miserable by our leaving them.

Michelle Franklin

#34. The fact that someone had decided I'd be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.

Sophia McDougall

#35. The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

Richard Gere

#36. When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Daisy Whitney

#37. 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

#38. it was like to want to hurt someone, to crave their death.

Anna Zaires

#39. Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there's always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#41. Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

Hermione Lee

#42. Fate is death. No one escapes it. But if you stick around long enough, you might find someone to help you cheat fate for a while. And when you can't cheat anymore, and fate finally catches up to you, maybe it won't seem so scary with that someone by your side.

Cassia Leo

#43. To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

Claude Debussy

#44. Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.

In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.

Kate Fagan

#45. Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Mitch Albom

#46. It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you.

Susan Cooper

#47. The very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Leo Tolstoy

#48. The dead live as long as someone who loves them lives.

M.J. Rose

#49. Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

E.L. Doctorow

#50. And then he hesitated. He turned his head and looked across the chasm at Ileni. Their eyes met, and his weren't deadly and focused at all. They were ... afraid.
This thing between us wouldn't survive my watching you murder someone.

Leah Cypess

#51. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.

Herbert Mason

#52. I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#53. Saying goodbye to someone you love isn't really the hard part. It's living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#54. Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

Veronica Roth

#55. I used to think that only death could take someone away from me, but I have learned so many lesser things could steal someone away. Just as completely; just as forever.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#56. Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.

William Wells Brown

#57. When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation.

Catherine Jinks

#58. In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

Preeth Nambiar

#59. Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.
It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it or
not, you're still kissing Death. September Young, Into the flames

Mel Bossa

#60. Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain.

Daphne Du Maurier

#61. To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.

Mark Helprin

#62. Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

N. T. Wright

#63. All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Marjorie M. Liu

#64. A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Melina Marchetta

#65. The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone's hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child.

Wes Locher

#66. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone. People

Fredrik Backman

#67. According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.

Tamara Faith Berger

#68. And she wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.

Sarah J. Maas

#69. The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

Shirley Knight

#70. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Guy Sajer

#71. You know, I still can't get my head around what happened to Ana. She was there last week. She lent me a pen in English class. How can someone go from lending a pen to being dead?

Lang Leav

#72. I know what it meant. I worked it out myself. I've been reading about it. It was a metaphorical death. Sometimes the cards speak in metaphors. It's me. I'm dead on the inside, I've felt it for a long time. As if I died and everything that's happening is someone else's strange and awful dream.

Kate Morton

#73. It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it all right.

Pamela Freeman

#74. Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

Monica Hesse

#75. there's a big difference between death threats and love letters--even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

Richelle Mead

#76. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#77. It was as if someone had left
the bird there
as a kind of telegram
of feathers, oily feathers
that looked like they'd struggled,
shuttered a little before letting go
into flight
forever.

Kristen Henderson

#78. Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

David Wroblewski

#79. Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future.

Christopher Fowler

#80. Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death.
- Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm

Nalini Singh

#81. I was a vampire, and ... someone was trying to call me?
When my parents had said that not even death could pry me from my mobile phone, I'd thought they were joking. I wriggled around in the narrow coffin until I could reach the ringing handset.

Helen Keeble

#82. After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been ... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Nancy Hale

#83. That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.

Jennifer Egan

#84. Some hoarders choose to be alone because they have lost someone in the past. On the surface it looks like a hoarder wants to be alone, but the truth is the hoarder doesn't want to get close to someone else and risk another loss or death.

Matt Paxton

#85. His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone
he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?

Jaye Wells

#86. We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Madame De Stael

#87. Sam: You know what I wish?
Cassel: What?
Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.

Holly Black

#88. The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being.

Yann Martel

#89. If my face is uncovered, a man - even someone I do not know - may fall into sin. Consequently, the scarves are necessary, essential. For life, I am wrapped as if in death.
Why not have the man cover his eyes instead?

Kerry Nietz

#90. Did her dragon nature make her more violent? She'd never fantasized death for anyone before. Then again, she'd never met someone like Ferrin.

Chris Cannon

#91. Not so long ago we were all a tightly knit group of friends. Too bad someone had ripped apart the stitches that held us together, unraveling the cozy blanket of our friendship and leaving just enough strands to hang ourselves with.

E.J. Stevens

#92. To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

Nhat Hanh

#93. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

Anais Nin

#94. Death is merely an illusion of the departed ... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she isn't there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn't here, doesn't mean that they aren't there.

Lionel Suggs

#95. I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Tennessee Williams

#96. This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Madeleine L'Engle

#97. Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death.

Moses Isegawa

#98. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

Thomm Quackenbush

#99. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.

Rosamund Lupton

#100. When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours.
Glory in Death

J.D. Robb