Top 100 Short Death Quotes

#1. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

Paul Hoffman

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#2. But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

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#3. Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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#4. If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Siegfried Sassoon

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#5. She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.

Neil Gaiman

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#6. When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Mark Twain

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#7. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

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#8. Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.

Kiar

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#9. The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

Warren Moore

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#10. Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked.
"No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Rick Riordan

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#11. I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

Walt Whitman

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#12. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Jacob M. Appel

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#13. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.

Jonathan Messinger

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#14. If love only belongs to the life, why life is so short and death feels more timeless and completely separates our closeness?
if so, why love doesn't belong to the death instead?

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#15. That, too, was in the air itself -- a whisper of apology when the smell of the soil carried. There should be pumpkins in the fields, or sunflowers, or the peppers you saw up north. Instead, it was the smell of old earth that the breezes caught, sometimes a tinge of death. Too hard to forget.

Christian Crews

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#16. Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

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#17. Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price - death of the individual.

Richard J. Borden

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#18. Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

Aniruddha Sastikar

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#19. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#20. In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

Doc Hastings

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#21. Until the early middle years of the sixteenth century, when King Henry VIII began to quarrel with Rome about the dialectics of divorce and decapitation, a short and swift route to torture and death was the attempt to print the Bible in English. It's

Christopher Hitchens

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#22. At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

Beeban Kidron

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#23. Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Sol Luckman

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#24. It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Ban Ki-moon

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#25. It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.

Robin Black

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#26. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .

R.D. Laing

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#27. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

James Boswell

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#28. Life's too short for a funeral.

Bill Smith

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#29. Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

John Pearson

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#30. it doesn't matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of your child's death; the hole in your heart never heals over. You can function in life, but you are doomed to fall far short of that contentment which had once been available to you. Soon

David Bagby

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#31. His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought.
In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and we end as dust.
The oh-so-short passage in between is the bit we call 'life'.
Everything ends eventually.
Everything.

Alex Scarrow

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#32. I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Eknath Easwaran

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#33. Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

Anthony Liccione

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#34. I saw sunrises fade and burn among fleets of sparks. The moon blossomed
like a lily carved of bone ...
The Death of the Astronaut, page 390.

Lewis Turco

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#35. If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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#36. O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!

Timothy Salter

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#37. Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.

Kenneth Eade

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#38. There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#39. Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Joseph Conrad

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#40. Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Publilius Syrus

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#41. Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.

Jennifer Niven

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#42. Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.

Julian Short

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#43. Life is too short when you think of the length of death

Sean Mangan

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#44. Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ...

Katherine Anne Porter

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#45. Life is short and death is eternal.

Rick Riordan

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#46. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

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#47. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

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#48. If last night proved anything, it's that life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short - and fragile - shot glass.

Samantha Sotto

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#49. Life is short, death is forever

Marsha Qualey

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#50. Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Raymond Carver

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#51. Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#52. I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

Rosie Thomas

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#53. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

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#54. The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.

Kimberly Perry

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#55. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

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#56. The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!

Thomas Watson

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#57. We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Edward Young

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#58. In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Johann Arndt

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#59. There was something about him that had always rubbed her the wrong way. Before her mother's death, she [Shiara] could remember her saying that he was a nice enough young man, but not the one for her daughter.

J.C. Morrows

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#60. After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

Robert L. Forward

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#61. Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.
Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.

Jessica Khoury

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#62. Why is it when I'm the one shot, I'm a baby, but when it's you, it's a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe)
Because I'm cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#63. You can overcome anything...short of death.

Abi Ketner

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#64. I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

Brian Andreas

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#65. We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Julian Short

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#66. Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still ...

James Russell Lowell

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#67. He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.

John Howard Matthews

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#68. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Milarepa

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#69. What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

Saint John Chrysostom

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#70. You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Eckhart Tolle

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#71. O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
And all the good embrace, who know the grave
A short dark passage to eternal light.

William Davenant

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#72. How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Hannah More

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#73. I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

Kiesza

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#74. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

Steven J. Carroll

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#75. A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Pliny The Elder

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#76. That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

Emily Dickinson

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#77. Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

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#78. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.

Naomi Wood

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#79. If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

Ken Kesey

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#80. Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

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#81. They call me the Angel of Death.

Moira Young

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#82. Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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#83. Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Michel De Montaigne

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#84. Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Philip Roth

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#85. I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

Carew Papritz

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#86. I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Martin Short

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#87. Wafa Wanaka, our elders say. Not only does this mean that death is the ultimate peace, it also means that we are not to speak ill of the dead. Once a person has crossed over to the real of the spirits, he takes his transgressions with him, and we speak only of the good. - 'Something Nice from London

Petina Gappah

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#88. Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

Denis Leary

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#89. The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

Michel Houellebecq

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#90. We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

Charlton Heston

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#91. There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

John Green

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#92. I will garden on the double run,
my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
and work until my heart is short,
then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
from cramps and the lack of oxygen.

Richard Hugo

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#93. Fear is the short road to death and this world,
Changed by the flux of decay:
Survival is the exception for weary men.

From the new book The Waning

Ellen Mae Franklin

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#94. Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

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#95. And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.

Anne Bradstreet

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#96. The life of man is like the life of a blade of grass. Death comes, the grass withers, and behold life ends, and the flower falls of all greatness and all worldly goods.

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

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#97. What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and now it would surely end at sunrise.

Meredith T. Taylor

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#98. Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#99. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

Jack Black

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#100. Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last.

A.M. Willard

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