Death Quotes · Page 259

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

— Marya Hornbacher

Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

— Laozi

“From life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor.”

— Malinda Lo

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”

— Joanne Harris

“This is dying everyday. Over and over.”

— S.J. Watson

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.

— Stonewall Jackson

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

— Elayne Boosler

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

— Euripides

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

— Patrick Pearse

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:…

— Anonymous

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

— Tamora Pierce

“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”

— Mitch Albom

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

— Irving Kristol

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

— Dante Alighieri

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

— Anne Rice

“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have…

— Charles Bukowski

“DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And…

— Neil Gaiman

The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of…

— John Hawkes

“They spoke what they thought. What they said became prophecies. Their prophecies became curses. And these curses became the fine line dividing…

— Rahul Shrivastava

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“The only people who do not experience frustrations are up in heaven or in the grave. The rest of us in the…

— Dr. Paul Hauck

“Maybe not everything all at once, but I think people can end their lives having gotten all that they wanted out of…

— Jill Santopolo

I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured…

— Robert Barry

“The remembrance of death is the beginning of a purposeful life”

— Sesan Kareem

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

— Bertrand Russell

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

— Nicole Krauss

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

— Belle Boyd

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

— Neil Gaiman

“Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?”

— Jeff O'Brien

Being single prepares you for death,,God,,I hope it comes soon

— Anonymous

“Valour begot respect, whether in life or in the aftermath of death.”

— Amish Tripathi

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

— Christopher Moore

“Immortality is for the gods. Frankly, I don't know how they stand it.”

— Lisa Huang Fleischman

Nothing in life is promised except death.

— Kanye West

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Death is a linesman sees wide we can't cheat on him…

— Nkem

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

— John Ruskin

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

— Charles Baudelaire

“Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.”

— Doug Dillon