Quotes About Mysterious Death

#1. The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

George D. Prentice

#2. Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

Billy Graham

#3. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking.

Angela Carter

#4. The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Sarah Orne Jewett

#5. Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#6. Open questions like love, life, death, struggle and sex are our experiences, our opinions are not answers but they still remain mysterious unanswered questions. Let it be Open.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to pick up a man's dream, his measure of the world, rather than fashion one of my own.

Miranda Weiss

#8. Whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end - it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#10. 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

#11. A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

Stephen Crane

#12. When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul.

Victor Hugo

#13. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?

J.G. Ballard

#14. One death has already been attributed to the Glow Cloud.

But listen, it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down the town for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?

Joseph Fink

#15. The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#16. I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother ... I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata ... I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end

Sukanta Bhattacharya

#17. They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.

Edith Wharton

#18. Perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.

Derek Raymond

#19. Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds.

John Dryden

#20. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Paul Kurtz

#21. When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about.
Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#22. The flood of time is rolling on;
We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
Have ye done well?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#23. And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#24. Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Katherine Paterson

#25. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#26. You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

Evan Esar

#27. Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor. Anyone who has not looked death in the face does not know this, but I know it ...

Milan Kundera

#28. You're going to fuck everything up if you act like some crazed guy with an infatuation. This is not the guy she fell in love with. She fell in love with dark mysterious Dank Walker. She fell in love with Death. Be that guy. Stop being this broken, pitiful, obsessed stalker dude.

Abbi Glines

#29. It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

John Hines

#30. This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.

Vladimir Nabokov

#31. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

S.A. Tawks