Top 100 With Death Quotes
#3. I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
Margaret Mahy
#4. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya.
Ron A Swan
#5. It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.
Greg Berlanti
#6. since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here
N. T. Wright
#7. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Sidney Sheldon
#8. I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.
Nenia Campbell
#9. "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary
Cillian Murphy
#11. I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'Rourke
#12. To say that Doctor Tenace loved death is probably too much, but decay, especially mental or soul decay fascinated him. He was hypnotised by the last minutes of all sorts of living creatures struggling with death.
Yves Bernas
#13. The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see ... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
Henry Miller
#14. If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning - a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.
Neil Gaiman
#15. I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Joan Baez
#16. Only if we die, or are threatened with death, do we question and whine about how all this time we wasted the gift of living.
Cameron Jace
#17. Love isn't quite desire ... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium ...
Neil Gaiman
#18. I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.
William T. Vollmann
#19. You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die - very not okay to be very okay with death.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.
Katherine Paterson
#21. Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
Sorin Cerin
#22. She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with hell following after.
Mark Twain
#23. In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
Margaret Deland
#24. Richard's mind was filled with the flow and form of the dance with death, the way of a war wizard. He was lost in that dance he had come to know so well.
Terry Goodkind
#25. Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia
#26. A brush with death always helps us live our lives better
Paulo Coelho
#28. If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
Laozi
#30. Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
Margaret Deland
#31. The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. Most people who'd had three brushes with death - one involving a ghoul - would be scared into a very cooperative state. Tammy appeared to be channeling her inner Paris Hilton instead.
Jeaniene Frost
#33. People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
Thomas Perez
#34. Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.
James Hollis
#35. Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
Chuck Palahniuk
#36. I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.
John Marsden
#37. I will keep faith with death in my heart ... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death ... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas E. Mann
#38. The Bluebeard's terrible parting gift had been to make desire rhyme with death and fear.
Cornelia Funke
#39. You think this necklace is a tailsman?"
"Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
Abbi Glines
#40. But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat
#41. Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
Alan Bradley
#42. Hear what little Red-Eye saith: Nag, come up and dance with death!
Rudyard Kipling
#43. When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.
Theodosia Garrison
#44. Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to ... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
Ray Bradbury
#45. Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
Seamus Heaney
#47. What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
Audre Lorde
#48. Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.
Jennifer Worth
#49. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
Richard Ronald Allan
#50. I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
Irvin D. Yalom
#51. He isn't going to be happy with me. I don't want his anger directed my way when I snuff out his precious one. After all, who wants to fuck with Death.
Abbi Glines
#52. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
Evelyn Waugh
#53. The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
William Sloane Coffin
#54. We settled long ago," he later reflected, "that there's no reckoning with death.
Wade Davis
#55. A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Stanley Hauerwas
#56. I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. Nesta looked at the king with death twining around his hands, then down at Cassian. And covered Cassian's body with her own. Cassian went still - then his hand slid over her back. Together. They'd go together.
Sarah J. Maas
#58. Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
Joe Moore
#59. I think that when we wrestle with death ... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#60. Are your eyes dimmed with death's black veil?
Aya Kanno
#61. Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.
Rajneesh
#62. So I think I am making a bargain with death; I am cheating. I am living more than one life
Martin Bergmann
#63. You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
Ian Fleming
#64. Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.
Diane Duane
#65. Death is a great tragedy ... a profound loss ... I don't accept it ... I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.
Ray Kurzweil
#66. I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.
Yves Rossy
#67. Maybe it was this brush with death that was driving us to furiously prove we were alive.
Richelle Mead
#68. If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
Herta Muller
#69. Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.
Marsha Canham
#70. Luna had never been good at coping with death. After all she had gone through, she knew she should've been trained.
But she wasn't. She was regrettably human.
Kayla Krantz
#71. When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.
Yuvraj Singh
#72. Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he'd become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
Gary Ponzo
#73. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Eugene O'Neill
#74. I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
John Lydon
#75. Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.
John Steinbeck
#76. To "stand there" at the bedside of a patient who is faced with death from cancer is anathema for oncologists.
Nortin M. Hadler
#77. But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
Gayle Forman
#78. The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty
#79. Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.
Ira N. Barin
#80. If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.
Tim Burton
#81. The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
Raymond Moody
#82. All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.
Johnny Rich
#83. I cant regret the descisions that brought me face to face with death, they also brought me to edward.
Stephenie Meyer
#84. I now have some intimacy with death, and like the hops in a beer, it has both embittered and fortified me.
Eli Brown
#85. When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#86. My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.
Richelle Mead
#87. This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death.
Henry Miller
#88. Because I like to flirt with death. Let's do this, give me your best shot, human. Let's see who gives in first. This isn't my first time.
Shakuita Johnson
#89. Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?
Richard Schickel
#90. There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
Kurt Eichenwald
#91. Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.
Connie Willis
#92. Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.
Roberto Benigni
#93. If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
Andrew Vachss
#94. To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
John Howard Griffin
#95. If someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I planned in the first place.
Magan Vernon
#96. I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.
Steven Morrissey
#97. It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.
Peter Thiel
#98. He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
Brian Jacques
#99. The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#100. Few stories start with death. Often, it starts with grief.
Rin Chupeco
