Death Quotes · Page 361

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

— Emile M. Cioran

Men don't just rise up from the dead, though, no matter how angry they are.

— Merlin

Please don't keep until your desire expired, you are in short time to live and forever to die.

— Tivea

“Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.”

— Clive Barker

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

— Josephine Tey

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its…

— George Galloway

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

— Richard Flanagan

I'm high on life. Unfortunately, the side effects include sickness, pain, suffering and death.

— Anonymous

“This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party,…

— John Cheever

“Life is a battle, Sasha. All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations…

— Joel Shepherd

“Mortals dies." said Catarina. "You've always known that, and yet you've loved them before." "Not," Magnus said, "like this." Catarina inhaled in…

— Cassandra Clare

I have fond memories of the Grand National, but in recent years, as I have become more committed to animal welfare, I…

— John Bishop

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not…

— Zhuangzi

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect…

— Anthony Trollope

“Immortality and absolute power do not mix. The longer we live, the more we believe the conclusions we have drawn over time…

— David Kersten

“I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.”

— Stephen King

“Souls live on without their bodies. But bodies without souls are nothing but compost.”

— Gina Damico

“But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise…

— G.H. Pember

Racing through a life of tragic wastage, I experience the loss of trust and innocence.

— Bad Religion

“Sometimes the only difference between life and death is the ability to retain the smallest scrap of hope.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“I will love you like no other for I have died a thousand tiny deaths and everytime I died I thought of…

— Joseph Michael Linsner

“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.”

— Sophocles

“Shiro says, “So certain death if we do, and almost certain death if we don’t.”

— B.C. Chase

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.

— Martin H. Fischer

“Bring me the receipts. I’m using them as a write-off.” What do you know? Even Death pays taxes.”

— Angela Roquet

“... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”

— Anonymous

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

— George Herbert

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible…

— Tadeusz Borowski

“You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter.…

— Neil Gaiman

Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on…

— Sidney Lanier

“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.”

— Travis Berketa

I drove my Bugatti at 210 miles per hour. I wanted to see how fast I could go, and it scared me…

— Chad Ochocinco

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

— Louis C. K

“Time counts us out and flesh fades, but death cannot touch the inspiration we leave behind.”

— Zachary Koukol

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

— Plato

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

— Jack Kevorkian

“One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“If I had to, I'd fight it like death itself. But with you, I don't have to.”

— Emma Bull

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

— William Shakespeare