Death Quotes · Page 258

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

— Evan Esar

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

— William Holden

“Don’t concern yourself with death. Immerse yourself in life.”

— Van Dog Sees God

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

— Sylvia Plath

“Their lives had another forty seconds to run.”

— Stephen King

“Well, honey, everybody has to die sometime.”

— Wendell Berry

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

— Patrick Pearse

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

— Sophocles

We're going to be better from our losses and from the adversity we've faced.

— Auston Matthews

“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”

— Temple Grandin

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce…

— William Bradford

“The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

— William C. Bryant

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

— John Grisham

“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like…

— Diane Ackerman

“WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO…

— Louise Fitzhugh

“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“So do not expect always to get an emotional charge or a feeling of quiet peace when you read the Bible. By…

— Geoffrey Thomas

So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but…

— Anonymous

This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say…

— Peter McWilliams

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade…

— Alan Dale

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is…

— Blaise Pascal

“Dying is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

— Tracey Garvis-Graves

“Grief is not a weakness... it's courage.”

— Christina Stiverson

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

— Neil Young

The big change is the proximity to death.

— Leonard Cohen

“Families that feel together, heal together.”

— Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

— Cornel West

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

— Socrates

“I don't think tour dying. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.”

— John Green

“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.”

— Tim O'Brien

“Death waits for no vampire. —Ethan Sullivan I like bacon. —Merit”

— Chloe Neill

“The sky is stained red with the blood of a thousand dying sacrifices.”

— Kelan Gerriety

“it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.”

— Charles Bukowski

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

— Yann Martel

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

— Oscar Wilde

“Death and Life are merely two sides of the same coin.”

— Laurence Galian