Death Quotes · Page 404

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

— William Shakespeare

“Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one…

— Primo Levi

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.”

— Anonymous

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of…

— Anonymous

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at…

— Tryon Edwards

When you lose someone, you go through a lot of metaphors. Our vocabulary falters in the face of death.

— Mary Katharine Ham

“PART 2 I felt doomed to death, But in a flash, Before I could reduce my thoughts To an emotion, I felt…

— Alice Jamieson

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a…

— Brian P. Cleary

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“...the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by…

— John Ruskin

“Katsa. Is it too much for you to understand that a man might be hungry after you’ve beaten him half to death?…

— Kristin Cashore

“How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time…

— Dorothy Strachey

“There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and…

— Federico Chini

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death?…

— John Cleese

We're all slaves to death is our biological curse and thus a form of slavery.

— Jeremy Limn

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...

— Elie Wiesel

“We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.”

— Bruce R. McConkie

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

— Oswald Chambers

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.”

— Reginald H. Garrett

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they…

— Ari Shaffir

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

— Astrid Lindgren

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.”

— Sean Norris

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that…

— Simon R. Green

“I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin Towers From Rape of a…

— Sara Niles

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

— Julia Cameron

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

— George Sewell

“Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.”

— Lisa Gardner

Peeta Mellark. We will see how high and mighty he is when hes faced with life and death. -Katniss Everdeen

— Hunger Games

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

— David Cameron

“What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death?”

— Cara Lynn Shultz

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get…

— Damien Hirst

“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for…

— John Piper

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

— Dario Fo

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

— John Piper

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin