Top 100 Death's Door Quotes
#1. Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt
Darynda Jones
#3. Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
Bobby Darin
#4. I mean hell,, I was literally knocking on death's door, and I still looked awesome.
Jus Accardo
#5. He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what Alexander was doing near death's door before it was his time. He said, Dad, I'm going for her.
Paullina Simons
#7. Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?
Shirley Booth
#8. For as I pass through death's door let me sing my favorite melody and finish it on the other side.
Johnny Flora
#9. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.
J.C. Ryle
#10. It is clearer now that no anti-Semitic government in any country has ever helped its scapegoats to leave by any other door than death.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#11. Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?
James R. Paddock
#12. That boy needs a hobby."
"Stalking is a hobby."
"So is serial killing.
Darynda Jones
#13. Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
Hugh Elliot
#14. We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.
Anthony Liccione
#15. We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.:
Glitch snorted. More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.
Darynda Jones
#16. It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.
Howard Wilkinson
#17. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#18. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.
Kathleen Winter
#19. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
Ethel M. Dell
#20. Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.
Billy Graham
#21. At least this way we're safe in a room with a door that locks. And the sign says they have HBO."
That stands for Horrible Bloody Ohmygod." Eve said. "which is the way they kill you. When you think you're safe.
Rachel Caine
#22. You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
Eloisa James
#23. You should not desire, he knows, the death of any human creature. Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged somewhere, he will batter down your door, walks in and wipes his boots on you.
Hilary Mantel
#24. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought.
Haruki Murakami
#25. It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop
no, not only confusion but pain too.
Walter Mosley
#26. I hope you drop dead!" She screamed as Basta hauled her out of the room. "I hope you burn to death! I hope you suffocate in your own smoke!"
Basta laughed as he closed the door. "Just listen to this little wildcat!" He said. "I think I'll have to watch my step with you around!
Cornelia Funke
#27. Though you forget the way to the Temple,
There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.
T. S. Eliot
#28. You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#29. The money opens many doors. That of the coffin, among other things. (L'argent ouvre de nombreuses portes. - Celle du cercueil, entre autres.)
Charles De Leusse
#30. You better hope she doesn't say a word," Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri's nose.
Uri grabbed the finger laughing, "What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy glory?"
"Just shut up," Gabe groaned, pushing the door shut in his friend's face.
Wendy Owens
#31. He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.
Laurence Gonzales
#32. There is a crowd outside the main door, talking softly about the death as if they don't want the dead man to know that he is gone.
Manu Joseph
#33. I don't need to jump off cliffs into oceans to die, because every day there is a little death waiting for me. All I have to do is wake up and walk out the front door.
Jami Attenberg
#35. I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.
Dan Skinner
#36. In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.
Jean Little
#37. For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.
Graeme Rodaughan
#38. My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks
and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper.
She lived.
Kami Garcia
#39. In the grand scheme of things, the stuff that comes with a forewarning isn't really that important. We know when that big exam is, the driving test, a long-awaited holiday. But birth, death and the police knocking at your door tend to be a bit less predictable.
Donna Ford
#40. If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
Sachin Tendulkar
#41. A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Rajneesh
#42. Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. Don't interrupt,' one of the boys said. 'He'll lose his life.'
Seeing it was a matter of life and death, Sophie and Michael backed toward the door. But Howl, quite unperturbed at killing his nephew, strode over to the wall and pulled the boxes up by the roots.
Diana Wynne Jones
#44. The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.
Philip Reeve
#45. Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.
Kristina McMorris
#46. Death is just the door through which we experience true Life.
Todd Stocker
#47. Opportunity may knock, but Death always rings, for he is perfectly aware that sometimes even the hardest of door poundings may go unheard from within, particularly when there is a vacuum running.
Clayton Smith
#48. Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
#49. And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally."
Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?"
"It's a new tradition," Amber shot back.
"Clearly the deeper meaning of the word has escaped you.
Darynda Jones
#50. Are you really an archangel?" I whisper.
He gives me a cocky grin. "Impressed?"
"No," I lie. "But I have some complaints I'd like to file about your personnel."
"Talk to middle management."
I follow him out the door, giving him my
death-by-glare expression.
Susan Ee
#51. Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.
Robert E.Lee
#52. Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.
C.S. Lewis
#53. Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew this. The knowledge was built into him.
To Bill Door, he realised, it was so much horse elbows.
Terry Pratchett
#54. Thomas stepped into the hall with Newt, scared to death of what his friend might say and how crazy it might sound. The seconds were ticking away. They walked a few feet from the door before Newt stopped and faced him,
James Dashner
#56. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
T. S. Eliot
#57. 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
#58. The old man nodded. "There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' We all have a door that waits. I know that. I accept it. But the children. That's what I struggle with.
Ruta Sepetys
#59. He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.
George Jones
#60. As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton
#61. One simply did not invite death upon their door unless they were hoping to die.
Ashlan Thomas
#62. Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: "what did you do with your life?" We must all answer this question, and woe betides those who answer: "I remained standing at the door.
Paulo Coelho
#63. They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.
Janet Fitch
#64. In June we picked the clover,
And sea-shells in July:
There was no silence at the door,
No word from the sky.
A hand came out of August
And flicked his life away:
We had not time to bargain, mope,
Moralize, or pray.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#66. Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of their legs.
Brooklyn turned a tight-lipped smile on him. "Thanks so much for that penis-driven observation.
Darynda Jones
#67. It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.
Anthony Liccione
#68. The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
Guru Nanak
#69. Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me.
Thomas Pynchon
#70. I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
Orson Scott Card
#71. In my world death was like a nameless and incomprehensible hand, a door-to-door salesman who took away mothers, beggars, or ninety year old neighbors, like a hellish lottery.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#72. When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.
Khushwant Singh
#73. Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
D.H. Lawrence
#74. They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn't back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.
Rick Riordan
#75. I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
David Mitchell
#77. Death does not end my life, it opens the door to a life without end.
J.R. Rim
#78. When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an angel. When the patient begins to convalesce, the physician becomes a mere human. When the physician asks for his fees, he is considered as the devil himself.
Hendrik Goltzius
#79. Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
Graham Greene
#80. Glitch was about as wild and unpredictable as a carrot stick.
Darynda Jones
#81. When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
John Masefield
#82. Life is lived a foretold conclusion, your eventual destiny is at the door
Deon Potgieter
#83. I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Bob Dylan
#84. Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
Richard Baxter
#86. Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don't escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.
Osho
#87. I would be less frightened of death (not just my own death but Welty's death, Andy's death, Death in general) if I thought a familiar person came to meet us at the door,
Donna Tartt
#88. There is more terror in a day of life than there is at the moment of death. It is as if a door has opened to a prison, though you do not believe it is a prison while you exist within it.
Douglas Clegg
#89. But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. 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
#91. Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.
Ben Rice
#92. You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.
Laura E. Richards
#93. A sign on the door proclaimed: The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother.
Courtney Milan
#94. Because I can see them, I bridge life and death, and they hope I can open for them the door they are afraid to open for themselves.
Dean Koontz
#95. How could a person have and do all these stupid things
clip coupons and double lock the front door
and then one day just cease to exist?
J. Courtney Sullivan
#96. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#97. Queens do not remember these things,"
"Saying so does not make it true."
"You will need it to be true, for it is too cruel otherwise, to force a Queen to kill what she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head.
Kendare Blake
#98. The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that's destined to carry me down
Rick Yancey
#99. Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#100. I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits; and 'tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways: any way, for heaven-sake
John Webster
