Death Quotes · Page 192

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

— William Gurnall

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

— Mark Twain

“There is no good time in which to die,”

— Louis L'Amour

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

— David Strathairn

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

— Bertrand Russell

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

— Val Kilmer

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

— Hugh Howey

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

— Anonymous

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

— Amish Tripathi

“Someday I want to write a sixteen-syllable Haiku about the death and disappearance of a monosyllabic word.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after”

— Peyton J Glenn

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

— Anthony Kiedis

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

— Richard Harris

Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.”

— Julieanne O'Conner

“It is said that faerie children are not like mortal children. They need little in the way of love. They need not…

— Holly Black

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way."…

— Agatha Christie

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death…

— Robert Longo

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do…

— Haruki Murakami

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched…

— Paritoshik Sharma

“Hello, what are you afraid of? Death. Me too. When you hear a Mahler symphony? No, when I wake up in the…

— Marilyn Sandberg

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

— Frances Sargent Osgood

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

— Mitch Albom

Without death there would be very little progress.

— Steve Jobs

“Take them and claim their deaths as your reclamation to life.”

— Solitaire Parke

“Life's not fair. And death is no exception.”

— Molly Looby

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

— John Knowles

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

— Erma Bombeck

“Hope is such a beautiful dream that dies such a hideous death.”

— Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

— Selma Lagerlöf

“My Heart's still beating for you—Very Dark and Always.”

— Rae Hachton

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

— Irvin D. Yalom

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

— Yann Martel

Dear me! I must be turning into a god.

— Vespasian

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.”

— D.J. Molles

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

— Stephane Hessel