Death Quotes · Page 396

“The difference between dead and not dead had never been so hard to see. It was the slimmest of lines. Possible to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

“The dying go so swiftly at the end. Always the speed of their leaving catches me unawares; so much left to say,…

— M.C. Scott

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

— Thomas A. Edison

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

— Myron Scholes

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

— Anonymous

“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.”

— Roland Barthes

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

— Blaise Pascal

“Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he…

— Elaine Pagels

“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself…

— Thomas Sydenham

“And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to…

— Richelle Mead

“Death has been said to be the leveller in that it does not recognize one’s class, race, ethnicity or nationality. Death does…

— Remi Akujobi

“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened,…

— Katherine Arden

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from…

— Rachel Carson

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world…

— Douglas Coupland

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived…

— Jacqueline Carey

“Maybe that's why monsters fade. Maybe it's not about what the mortals believe. Maybe it's because you give up on yourself.”

— Rick Riordan

“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”

— Steven Ramirez

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

— Jack Kevorkian

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death…

— Elvis Costello

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

— Jose Marti

“You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that…

— Victor Hugo

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

— Stephen Harper

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

— Jeb Bush

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

— Robert Bly

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity...

— John Muir

“Dying for a person that you love is easy ,what's hard is living for a person that you love.”

— K. Qasim Ali

“An ominous curiousity writhes: rumors of ecstasy haunt me like rumors of death”

— Grace Butcher

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

— Gautama Buddha

People scared of death in this world but I'm scared of living in this world.

— Anonymous

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

— Franz Grillparzer

“I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to…

— Mika Waltari

“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my…

— Thomas Hardy

“The silence before the strike, the noise that follows afterwards, when life and death become alike, a hero is born amongst cowards.”

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

“No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.”

— Roshani Chokshi

“When I stand before myself in death, I want to look at myself only and know I fell in love with every…

— Dominic Riccitello

Anyone who dials a phone while driving is flirting with death. And anyone who texts while driving is insane.

— Martin Cooper

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's…

— Euripides

I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

— R. K. Milholland