Top 100 Quotes About A Death
#1. Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.
Phil Lester
#2. A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#3. I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
Jodi Picoult
#4. Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#5. When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure.
Dean Koontz
#6. The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.
David L. Katz
#7. Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
Daniel Berrigan
#8. A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
Sitting Bull
#9. 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
#10. Did I tell you Jeb threatened to turn Bret into a smashed pumpkin if I don't get home by midnight? Taking a sweet fairy tale like "Cinderella" and twisting it into a death threat. That's seriously warped.
A.G. Howard
#11. Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
Charles Spurgeon
#12. Nothing good comes from a death without a funeral.
Kate Morton
#13. Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory.
J.K. Rowling
#14. This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
Bodhidharma
#15. I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
Matt Bomer
#16. Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before.
Yelena: Is that an order Valek?
Valek: No, it's a promise!
Maria V. Snyder
#17. Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.
Meg Cabot
#19. Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?
J.K. Rowling
#20. Healing, "recovering," from a death is also a form of estrangement, a further loss.
Claire Harman
#21. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
Jodie Foster
#22. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.
Darren Star
#23. Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
Orson Welles
#24. Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.
Elliott Smith
#25. One! said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. So that was it. As at a birth, so at a death. Without so much as a kiss-me-quick-and-mind-the-marmalade, the only female in sight is enlisted to trot off and see that the water is boiled. Rustle something up, indeed! What did he take me for, some kind of cowboy?
Alan Bradley
#27. After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.
Wladimir Klitschko
#28. One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith
#29. My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
Leonard Mlodinow
#30. So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
John Knowles
#31. A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.
Ian Caldwell
#32. Death ray?" scoffed Victor. "Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. 'Oh you're an inventor? Have you made a death ray yet?' 'How's the inventing going? What's your death ray like?' I'm sick of it.
Dennis Liggio
#33. It doesn't happen like this! Everybody, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's away. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Neil Gaiman
#34. PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#35. I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between
Ani DiFranco
#36. Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
Hayao Miyazaki
#37. My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey P. Newton
#38. Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
Mark Forsyth
#39. 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
#40. Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them
we're Animorphs."
"Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked.
"Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said.
"Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.
Katherine Applegate
#41. Are you okay?" Aiden asked Deacon. He nodded slowly. "Yeah, I'm great. Nothing like witnessing a death match between gods when I'm trying to get some Cheetos." My
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#42. No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death.
M.L. Stedman
#43. I tied down time with a rope
but it came back.
Then
I put my head in a death bowl
and my eyes shut up like clams.
They didn't come back.
Anne Sexton
#44. You're a death priestess?" the man asked. His urge to have sex with her had diminished greatly, though not entirely. "Like, sacrificing babies and devouring souls to gain the power of daemons and all that?
Patrick Weekes
#45. You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image.
Karen Kingsbury
#46. I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.
That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.
Agatha Christie
#47. A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber
#48. A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.
Mohammed Morsi
#49. I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
Torrey Smith
#50. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. That's not a plan. That's a way to get a death so famously stupid that they'll be laughing about it in alehouses for a hundred years to come, Makin said.
Mark Lawrence
#52. Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
David S.E. Zapanta
#53. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
John Milton
#54. Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#55. AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.
William J. Clinton
#56. The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From The Mower
Philip Larkin
#57. I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#58. It's like im committing suicide and its not the first time.. Do you know what is more devastating?
"No," he said.
"The fact that both times it was my loved ones who convicted such a death for me
Parinoush Saniee
#59. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
Laurence Sterne
#60. A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.
Marisa Silver
#61. If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to.
After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?
Ais
#62. We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Stephen King
#63. Go get us some burgers and coffee. I'll get on the horn to Mark Hopewell. I'll ask him for a list."
"Cheese or plain?"
"I'm on a diet."
"Plain then. And no fries?"
"I said I'm on a diet, not a death march.
Carsten Stroud
#64. One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
Barney Norris
#65. Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.
-Han Solo
R.A. Salvatore
#66. 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
#67. I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.
Christopher Bollen
#68. Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
Virginia Woolf
#69. To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.
John Updike
#70. In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
Christopher Hitchens
#71. Her mother's quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline's despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child, then by giving it her despair, the despair that left it unable to live.
Pamela Erens
#72. I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.
Michael McClung
#73. We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.
David J. Morris
#74. the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,
Mohsin Hamid
#75. 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
#76. If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.
Zakir Naik
#77. I look like I lost a death match with a cheese grater.
Elicia Hyder
#78. Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.
Michael Robotham
#80. Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.
Stephen Kinzer
#81. I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one's cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.
Sloane Crosley
#82. A life without living was simply a death without dying.
Ais
#83. 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
#84. No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.
Stacey Kade
#85. A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
Mary Antin
#86. We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Thomas Browne
#87. And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
Christine Lahti
#88. A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?
Ernest Cline
#89. Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck
Rachel Vincent
#90. You will leave her alone," Gabriel said. "One way or another."
"That sounds like a death threat, Walsh."
"Then you lack imagination.
Kelley Armstrong
#91. Ah my daughter. Eighteen and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. I couldn't be prouder.
- Abe Mazure
Richelle Mead
#92. Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
Amanda Plummer
#94. There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.
Kathryn Harrison
#95. No, no, because she's a mental adolescent, and being romantic,
she has a death wish.
So, for a brief moment of passion,she completely abandons all responsibilities.
Woody Allen
#96. In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate ... But in the midst of the freedom he had attained Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that he stood alone.
Hermann Hesse
#97. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry Pratchett
#98. She look me over from head to foot. Then she cackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain't believed it.
Alice Walker
#99. 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
#100. Waiting
in a life full of little stories
for a death to come
Charles Bukowski
