Top 100 In Death Quotes
#1. In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
#2. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
Franz Kafka
#3. My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.
James Lee Burke
#4. Even in death, her mother was winning.
Noorilhuda
#5. As in life, I know only what is, and in death what is turns out to be what was. You
Philip Roth
#7. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Dietz
#8. If the person didn't deserve your love in life... they don't deserve your tears in death.
Lisa Renee Jones
#10. No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings.
Empedocles
#11. The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.
Octavio Paz
#12. I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
George R R Martin
#13. In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
Marilyn Monroe
#14. Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#15. 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
#16. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Mary Shelley
#17. The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
#18. 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
#20. Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver." She makes sure I don't speak.
"Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the louder
their voice, the deeper the echoes. But your wife served her purpose.
Pierce Brown
#21. Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.
Christine Bell
#22. I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm.
Roarke, Naked In Death
J.D. Robb
#23. If you are in a position where a little mistake results in death, you don't have to worry about the big mistakes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'
Charles Spurgeon
#25. To peace, Royin ... We give our lives seeking it, but it is only in death that we find it.
J. Leigh Bralick
#26. We were all survivors - every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death's cold face.
Cat Winters
#27. You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.
Mark Lawrence
#28. And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
Ivo Andric
#32. In life we have no time. In death we've got all eternity.
Mehreen Ahmed
#34. still got power over you, even in death, if he can agitate you this much
Carolyn Brown
#35. Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death
J.D. Robb
#36. The brainless rushing about makes us feel time starved, which, he writes "does not result in death, but rather, as ancient Athenian philosophers observed, in never beginning to live."6
Brigid Schulte
#37. The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#38. 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
#39. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Tupac Shakur
#40. Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
Fay Weldon
#41. The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.
John Piper
#42. Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives,
Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake,
How if our waking life, like that of sleep,
Be all a dream in that eternal life
To which we wake not till we sleep in death
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#45. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 1 John 3:14
Beth Moore
#46. Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero
David Cameron
#47. October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
Henry Ward Beecher
#48. There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Agathon
#50. Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
Carolyn Kizer
#51. I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.
Kellie Elmore
#52. A Christian's citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.
Billy Graham
#53. Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.
Rex Stout
#54. He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books."
~Eternity in Death
J.D. Robb
#55. He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.
Mahesh Poudyal
#56. Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?
Titus Lucretius Carus
#57. Yours in life, Kishan."
"Yours in death, Dhiren
Colleen Houck
#58. Freedom. That's the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace - peace in death and the peace of slavery." He snorted in amusement. "And I'm not certain about death.
Evan Currie
#59. [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
Cleopatra
#60. Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
Karl Barth
#61. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death
Edgar Allan Poe
#62. I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
Madeline Miller
#63. In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.
Rajneesh
#65. 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
#66. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato
#67. You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone:
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
Reader! then make time, while you be,
But steps to your eternity.
Fulke Greville Baron Brooke
#68. Together. Even in death. His fingers tightened their grip around her hand. A double statue of silver. Romantic. What would their faces show? Fear? Or love?
Cornelia Funke
#69. We want murderous throats
affairs that resemble bright birds
in death spirals.
Krysten Hill
#70. I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#71. Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
Walter Savage Landor
#72. O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?
Angela Of Foligno
#73. I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
Stella Young
#75. I read somewhere that the hair and fingernails on dead bodies don't actually grow, it just looks like they do because the skin contracts as the body dries out. So it's possible to lie even in death, to deceive people from beyond the
Robyn Schneider
#76. I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade
#77. Even in death, my mother smiled - and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would - her mirror image.
Peggy Toney Horton
#79. Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#80. I put my lilies in front of Sam's plaque. I didn't want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet.
Laurie Colwin
#81. The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
Neil Gaiman
#82. I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
Bob Marley
#83. She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.
T.D. Whittle
#85. But even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)
J.D. Robb
#86. I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
Val Kilmer
#87. The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.
Milan Kundera
#88. Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.
Peter David
#89. Love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
Susan Abulhawa
#90. Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.
Dorothy Dunnett
#91. Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.
Dave Barry
#92. There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.
Charlie Kaufman
#93. They grabbed a woman held in Death's grasp and shook and shook and forced Death to drop her
Pamela Erens
#94. They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. I didn't revel in death, but I didn't hate it either. Death had raised me, like an older sibling. Amidst death, I had found my bearings as a soldier. Surrounded by death, I had found my place as a leader.
Roshani Chokshi
#96. 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
#97. We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#99. I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.
Knut Hamsun
#100. Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
