Death Quotes · Page 345

“It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.”

— Michael Cunningham

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody…

— Keith Richards

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,…

— John Quincy Adams

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

— Demi Lovato

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

— William Shakespeare

“Fanaticism must be put to death and allow reason to prevail over ignorance.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do…

— Ronald Perelman

“...love knows not of death nor calculus above the simple sum of heart plus heart.”

— Sylvia Plath

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the…

— Harry A. Blackmun

It is now over. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

“No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that…

— Mira Grant

“The morning after / my death” The morning after my death we will sit in cafés but I will not be there…

— Elinor Wylie

Being such a fan of 'Star Wars', the dream is to be able to add something to the equation and bring something…

— Gareth Edwards

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“If If your hand came, dead in the dead of night, And touched my forehead, waking me to see You standing dead…

— Norman MacCaig

There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the…

— Krystal Ball

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

— Henry David Thoreau

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

— Michael Haneke

Wow you are really going to fight me over the internet? What's the worst you can do caps lock me to death?

— Brad D'Roza

Follow your heart, when you don't you feel a loss of energy, loss of power & an emptiness.

— Anonymous

“We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.”

— DC Talk the Voice of the Martyrs

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

— William Shakespeare

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

— Arthur Brisbane

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will…

— Christmas Humphreys

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think…

— Florence Henderson

Happy Thanksgiving to someone I'd have no problem stomping to death on Black Friday.

— Anonymous

The coronavirus is serving up a rare and tragic mix of grief, drastic life changes, and economic stress to a huge swath…

— Mary Katharine Ham

“Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.”

— Stephen King

...But Know As Soon As That Amount Has Finished, You Will Return Back Down To This Earth

— Ms_Freshie

“Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I…

— Patty Griffin

“Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught up in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.”

— Diane Setterfield

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

— Anonymous

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It could be said that one of the marks of a truly responsible life is a voluntary death”

— Donald Richie

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

— Peter Kreeft