Death Quotes · Page 145

“Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.”

— Arundhati Roy

“I do not fear death if I am allowed to die on my own terms.”

— Michael Gray Calvert

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

— Charles Bukowski

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

— Tupac Shakur

“We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps;…

— Juliet Marillier

“Maggie is my fire. The passionate heat that consumes everything in its path, incinerating me in a perfect, unyielding death.”

— A. Meredith Walters

“Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.”

— Toba Beta

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

— Anonymous

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end…

— Anonymous

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

— Anonymous

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

— Seneca the Younger

“Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part…

— Jasper Fforde

“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact…

— Clint Van Winkle

Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign…

— Bill Vaughan

“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it,…

— Jonathan Tropper

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an…

— Dahlia Lithwick

“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish…

— Margaret Atwood

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If…

— Evelyn Waugh

Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death…

— Anthony Jeselnik

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose…

— David Foster Wallace

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

— Alain Badiou

“I am very familiar with the sound of loss.”

— Amy L. Boukair

Every word written is a victory against death.

— Michel Butor

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

— Thomas Browne

“Death is the saddest part of life.”

— deAnna Lea

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

— Daniel Barenboim

When I think of Lee Rang, I also think of the death drive, 'Thanatos.'

— Kim Bum

“I'm double bred for death by fire.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

— Mike Myers

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.

— Spanish Proverb

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”

— Constantina Maud

“New York's alright, if you want to freeze to death.”

— Lee Vin

“Death is final, brother.” “You think I don’t know that?”

— Natasha Knight

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

— Kurt Vonnegut