Top 100 Death That Quotes
#1. But if that is what it meant to win the game, how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, and deprived of what one hopes. [...] There is no peace without hope [...] A warmth of life and an image of death: that was knowledge.
Albert Camus
#2. He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.
Helene Wecker
#3. But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.
Jandy Nelson
#4. Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.
Gerald Massey
#5. Heaven isnt my place, neither is hell. I have no place, except the death that's awaiting me
Erin Hanson
#6. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Sidney Sheldon
#7. It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.
Dan Quayle
#8. I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
George W. Bush
#9. It's not so much my own death that is intolerable, it's the death of those around me. Because I love them. And part of me dies with them. Therefore all love, if you like, is a form of suicide.
S.K. Tremayne
#10. Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
Gretel Ehrlich
#11. For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.
Jennifer Donnelly
#12. You're calling Illium a pretty boy?" Elena snorted, glad to focus on something other than the heavy cloud of death that hung over the city. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"I have scars, like any respectable male.
Nalini Singh
#13. Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#14. What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
John Powell
#15. It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.
Don DeLillo
#16. Psychologists have found that people who watch less TV are actually more accurate judges of life's risks and rewards than those who subject themselves to the tales of crime, tragedy, and death that appear night after night on the ten o'clock news.32
Shawn Achor
#17. What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.
Cornelia Funke
#18. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan
#19. The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.
Alan Hinkes
#20. Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#21. The cheerfulness and buoyancy of our youth are due partly to the fact that we are climbing the hill of life and do not see death that lies at the foot of the other side.
Anonymous
#22. I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.
Dave Eggers
#23. We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
Laura Bohannan
#24. These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.
William Shakespeare
#25. No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.
Charles Martin
#26. Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.
Pope Leo I
#27. We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.
Matt Chandler
#28. The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.
Sadegh Hedayat
#29. And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
Austin O'Malley
#30. 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
#31. It's your life, not your death, that defines you.
J.J. Brown
#32. I believe that at the moment of death, that the soul is released in a molecular form, that actually goes into the - the fabric of the universe, the structure of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen because we're electrically - we're galvanic, we're electrochemical.
Dan Aykroyd
#33. In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
#35. She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.
T.D. Whittle
#36. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
Steven Pinker
#38. At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.
Jeff VanderMeer
#39. It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out.
V.C. Andrews
#40. It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
John Le Carre
#41. I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#42. I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
Frank Herbert
#43. Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#45. To peace, Royin ... We give our lives seeking it, but it is only in death that we find it.
J. Leigh Bralick
#46. Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.
James S.A. Corey
#47. I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.
Kendare Blake
#49. The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
Joel Salatin
#50. Maybe it was this brush with death that was driving us to furiously prove we were alive.
Richelle Mead
#51. Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.
Elliott Smith
#52. It's an odd thing to be sad about someone in death that you never really cared for in life and a thing that chooses its own moment to sneak up on you - usually
Mark Lawrence
#53. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. They may unfold long after your death. That is when the words of so many writers resonate most.
Rebecca Solnit
#54. Even if he survived the Sorcerer, there would always be another Sorcerer, bigger and more dangerous than the last. It was just a matter of time until he died the kind of gruesome death that was the very reason people had paralyzing phobias of heights.
Megan Westfield
#55. I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
George R R Martin
#56. Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#57. It was not boring, said Majnoun, but it was strange. The people were always looking away to where you couldn't see. The whole time, I thought there was something coming. Then at the end, it was death that came.
Andre Alexis
#58. There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture ...
Lauren DeStefano
#59. Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.
Dexter Romweber
#60. Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he'd become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
Gary Ponzo
#61. Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.
William T. Vollmann
#62. It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.
Wendy Law-Yone
#63. My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#64. If he was, in fact, God, he knew there was no such thing as death. He knew that what we called death was but the eternal opening of the golden gates of everlasting joy; and it took no heroism to face a death that was eternal life.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#65. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#66. Only when he was conducting an autopsy could he forget the death of his beloved son. Ironically, playing with dead bodies released him from the death that had touched him.
Koji Suzuki
#67. And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you're losing money year after year ... that's not life even, that's like death. That's eternal damnation.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#68. It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
Samuel Butler
#69. I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.
Gene Wolfe
#70. One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
Kurt Tucholsky
#71. A horribly protracted death that would stretch into the indefinite future, a death not in one month or two or even three but one that might go on and on, with the whole process of dying getting worse every single day for years and years and years.
Thomas H. Cook
#72. You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
Jeff VanderMeer
#73. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
Rachel Van Dyken
#74. Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.
Tim Huelskamp
#75. It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.
Abby Mann
#76. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.
William Golding
#77. Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie Wiesel
#78. My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard
#79. In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.
James Joyce
#80. How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!
James Shirley
#81. His unlived life worried him, tortured him, turning round and round inside him like an animal in a cage. In Dodo's body, the body of a half-wit, somebody was growing old, although he had not lived; somebody was maturing to a death that had no meaning at all.
Bruno Schulz
#82. was so distraught over his death that I was barely able to eat any of him.
Ricky Sprague
#83. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie
#84. I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.
Martina Navratilova
#85. Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T. S. Eliot
#86. We beg one hour of death, that neither she
With widow's tears may live to bury me,
Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.
Ovid
#87. That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
Haruki Murakami
#88. The Great Leveller, Dogman whispered to himself, since he was in a thoughtful frame of mind. That's what the hillmen call him. Death, that is. He levels all differences. Named Men and nobodies, south or north. He catches everyone in the end, and he treats each man the same.
Joe Abercrombie
#89. A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#90. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.
Isolde Martyn
#91. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.
Derek Raymond
#92. And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#93. Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.
Rajneesh
#95. There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
Pliny The Younger
#96. Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
Federico Fellini
#97. Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude?
Elie Wiesel
#98. It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.
Socrates
#99. If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.
John Irving
#100. Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
Clara Lucas Balfour
