Death Quotes · Page 374

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

— Anonymous

“This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.”

— Dana Gioia

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

— Samuel Butler

“Love would come someday if he didn’t fuck me to death first. Death by dick. Didn’t sound half bad.”

— Chelle Bliss

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy…

— Samuel Beckett

“But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

— Ram Dass

“You that change the dull field, who give conversation to damaged ears, make dying alive, award guardianship to the wandering mind, you…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

“We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory…

— William Peter Blatty

I'm sorry for the living,I'm sorry for the people who are dying or already dead.Im sorry for the past,present and future.Im sorry…

— Jasmine

“The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the…

— Chelsie Shakespeare

“Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn.…

— Terry Pratchett

“I will wait. For as long as it takes, I will wait, a fixed point in time, never moving on, never going…

— Rebecca Harris

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who…

— Rush Limbaugh

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and…

— Helen Prejean

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

— W. H. Auden

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

— James Gates Percival

True love like death and a deathful person have like life of horror or life of angel……

— Alone Vasi

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

— John Dryden

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,…

— Rudy Giuliani

I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.

— Dean Potter

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives.…

— Frederick Lenz

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by…

— J. B. Priestley

“My decision to say no to the transplant wasn't about dying. It's about living.”

— Kirsty Jones

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is…

— Frederick Lenz

“The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.”

— Terry Pratchett

There is a similarity between the LSD effects and the experiences associated with the process of dying.

— Stanislav Grof

“The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.”

— Veronica Roth

“Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

— Eugenia Sheppard

“May the pathways that have taken you along the road to loss, guide you along the road to healing.”

— Eleesha

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”

— Roberto Bolaño