Death Quotes · Page 367

“Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your…

— Caitlin Moran

“Something's happened. Something involving danger and death and all that other stuff you like.”

— Richelle Mead

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

— Michael Baden

“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.”

— Stephanie Dray

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

— George Bernard Shaw

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

— Billy Corgan

“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it.”

— Charles Finch

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes…

— Joan Didion

“You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy.…

— V.C. Andrews

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as…

— Baruch Spinoza

All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death…

— Chris Matthews

“But of course DYING is renamed and classified by the Medical Establishment as a negative patient outcome. Words, marketing, and advertising can…

— Lee Vickers

“What if mankind has become so neurotic in their loss of fellowship to God that they have become “walking dead people”? What…

— Patrick Davis

“The particular way in which he was choosing to dice recklessly with death today was by trying to pay for a drinks…

— Douglas Adams

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

— Truman Capote

My father has been a great influence on my life and I love him to death.

— Mark Ingram II

“As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.”

— Carrie Vaughn

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

— Radclyffe Hall

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall…

— Mary Stewart

“Good doesn’t triumph over evil. There’s just random chance and death. You”

— Ethan Cross

“There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

— John Green

“A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life”

— Dean Cavanagh

“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death. But that will come in time...Not today.”

— George Pelecanos

“Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.”

— A.H. Scott

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

— Hugh Leonard

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

— Sean Penn

“Celaena wondered if she still had a death wish. Or perhaps the god of death just liked to play with her too…

— Sarah J. Maas

“the city rolled over and fell down dead. The sound of its death came after.”

— Ray Bradbury

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great…

— Corliss Lamont

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

— Irving Stone

Life is too short for us to be so serious. Enjoy your life while you still have it.

— @th

“Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of…

— Anonymous

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

— Karen Thompson Walker

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

— Allan Gregg

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

— Tee Grizzley

“Death would have to wait a while longer for another soul to feed upon.”

— Eli Wilde