Top 80 Quotes About Death As A Friend
#1. Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
Rupert Brooke
#2. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.
Francis Quarles
#3. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)
Katy Butler
#4. She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
John Scalzi
#5. The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.
John Cassian
#6. The judge punishes lawbreakers as a burning house injures its occupants. A person may be burned to death while robbing a home or saving a friend. Similarly, from a moral point of view, the judge's work is good or evil, depending on whether the laws he enforces are good or evil.
Thomas Szasz
#7. Look at us. You look like death, my friend, and I'm sure I do, too. We'll never stop blaming ourselves. I guess that's the price of love?
Diana Peterfreund
#9. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.
Rebecca McNutt
#10. Where has this cold come from?
"It comes from the death of your friend."
Will I always, from now on, be this cold?
"No, it will diminish. But always it will be with you."
What is the reason for it?
"Wasn't your friendship always as beautiful as a flame?
Mary Oliver
#11. Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die.
I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
David Benioff
#13. Brunetti's best friend had often said that he wanted death to take him just at the moment he laid his last lira down on a bar and said, 'Prosecco for everyone.
Donna Leon
#14. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.
Shaun Tan
#15. What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?
Katie MacAlister
#16. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends.
Jalina Mhyana
#17. God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.
Paul P. Enns
#18. (So I heard the boom of my fathr's rifle when he shot my best friend.) A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.(14)
Sherman Alexie
#19. When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.
Bob Dylan
#20. One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.
Stephen R. Covey
#21. Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
William Penn
#22. A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant begets misery,
As living in a house with a serpent in it begets death surely.
[5] 1.5 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#23. Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.
Erin Bow
#24. As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.
Tom Robbins
#25. It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.
Georgette Heyer
#26. Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.
Joshua L. Liebman
#27. Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
Carl Sandburg
#28. The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.
Hermann Hesse
#30. In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands ...
Mary Higgins Clark
#31. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
Emil M. Cioran
#32. Sometimes the worst tidings come as an absence. A friend who does not visit at the usual time, and who quickly thereafter withdraws from the friendship. An awaited letter that does not arrive, followed at some distance by news of an untimely death.
Alma Katsu
#33. 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
#34. It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
William Faulkner
#35. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#36. Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.
Alexandre Dumas
#37. Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume
#38. But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you. We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist. There will always be someone to help you with this transition.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#39. His friend had the capacity to refer to anything from majestic ghost gum forest in the Snowy Mountains to the sticky, dense rainforest of North Queensland as 'Bush'. If it wasn't a desert, a town or a city, then to Gary it was 'the Bush'.
GP Field
#40. What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:"tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".
Randy Pausch
#41. When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak
#42. Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old friend? The forest has no words to identify the hand, only erratic echo.
H.S. Crow
#43. Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
Anthony Kiedis
#44. Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
Chanakya
#45. Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
John Steinbeck
#46. The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. Now all you need is to make a V with your hand and say in a death rattle that you have been and always shall be his friend," Ian noted with heavy irony.
"Why would I ... " I began. Then understanding dawned.
"Holy crap, you're a closet Trekkie!
Jeaniene Frost
#49. But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.
C.J. Tulli
#51. You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
Ted Demme
#52. There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I
David Leadbeater
#53. Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
Jane Green
#54. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#55. My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Richard Adams
#56. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
Madeline Miller
#57. But let my death be memoried on this disc.
Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.
But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day,
Until the name grow vague and wear away.
Wilfred Owen
#58. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#59. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
#60. What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca The Younger
#62. Remember back in forty-four when someone killed that pet parrot of yours? What was his name, Reynold? You know, the only friend you ever had? That was me, George. I fucked it to death then fed it to Goshy.
Will Elliott
#63. When the dead do walk seek water's run,
for this the Dead will always shun.
Swift river's best or broadest lake
to ward the dead and have and make.
If water fails thee, fire's thy friend,
if neither guards it will be thy end.
Garth Nix
#64. Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
Luellen Hoffman
#65. 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
#66. For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
Robert Jordan
#68. Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
Rebecca McNutt
#69. Sam was your brother, and Trick was your friend, but what they did had nothing to do with you. You don't have to choose. Just because me and your dad couldn't live together, didn't mean you had to stop loving one of us, did it? Doesn't work like that. Love doesn't work like that.
C.J. Flood
#70. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
Rebecca McNutt
#71. When evil strikes and fury wakes,
Then love will face the choice it makes.
Death will free the loyal friend.
As it began, so shall it end.
Bound to the beast, you play your part--
The comfort of the aching heart.
Emily Rodda
#74. We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher
#76. The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.
Henri Nouwen
#77. Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long ...
V.C. Andrews
#78. He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who avenged the death of his sister by going down on her best friend for seven days and seven nights.
Mark Jackman
#79. Your friend the Turtle... He died a few years ago. The old idiot puked inside his shell and choked to death on a galaxy or two. Very sad, don't you think? But also quite bizarre.
Stephen King
#80. When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.
Plutarch
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