Death Quotes · Page 359

“I let go of her memory the moment I let go of her hand. She fell over 500 feet to her death.”

— Jarod Kintz

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

— Clint Smith

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.

— Ban Ki-moon

Death is the day it doesnt dawn on you to wake up. In fact, many people predecease themselves.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Cell death is programmed And so will Man's be I guess, For surely he must damned Mimicking cells, more or less

— Melchor Lim

“We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Life was a strange mix of twists and turns, where incomprehensible loss often led to paths of unimaginable joy.”

— Mary Campisi

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

— Desmond Tutu

How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will…

— Sarah Waters

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond…

— Pierce Brown

“Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this…

— Graham Swift

All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his…

— John Calvin

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll…

— Tennessee Williams

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get…

— Van Jones

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become…

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Whereas he felt tired and seemed to welcome death, Lili was joyous and in the freshness of youth.”

— Lili Elbe

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after…

— Francis Crick

“The sum of his life was a unique melody, hauntingly beautiful and powerful.”

— Ann Marston

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

— Mattie Stepanek

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.”

— Jim Morrison

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for…

— Ol Parker

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

— Sebastian Lelio

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The ignorant teen lived her last days stuck in the shadows of love, yet surrounded by the allure of death.”

— Nomar Knight

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die?”

— Paulo Coelho

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

— Nicole Krauss

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of…

— Conrad Aiken

You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.

— Pauly D

“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”

— Thomas Pynchon

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life…

— Charles Bukowski

“Yeah, I'm great. Nothing like witnessing a death match between gods when I'm trying to get some Cheetos. -Deacon”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Nothing shall part us in our love till Thanatos at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.

— Anonymous

Life, a game; you, a player; earth, a playground; money, your score; God, umpire; death, out of game.

— Vikrant Parsai

“She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.”

— Brad Kessler

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Christians believe in a Saviour who conquered death itself, while Muslims have a prophet, Muhammad, who was conquered by death.”

— Steve Kumar