Death Quotes · Page 417

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

— John Dryden

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out…

— Charles de Lint

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to…

— Gautama Buddha

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

— Paul A. Offit

“Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound.”

— Philip Beard

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

— Jeanette Winterson

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your…

— Peter Hammill

“Oh the stellar sensation, Oh the cosmic elevation; Time is sober in death, For the wine of love; Is the blue life…

— Stephan Attia

“You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to…

— Théophile Gautier

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the…

— Anonymous

“A young man propped up a ladder to capture photographs of the scene, yawning afterward. Death in Manhattan must be a rather…

— Lydia Kang

“Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you…

— Sue Merrell

“The emptiness imparts a strange melancholy which she could never express...except to think of bare trees under a white winter sky, empty…

— Stephen King

“It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey.…

— Lynn Weingarten

“For many people, life is full of pain, suffering. It doesn't consist of clear blue skies or fresh green grass that's always…

— Tiana Dalichov

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a…

— Richard Matheson

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at…

— William Broyles, Jr

Hate keeps me from living Fear keeps me from dying And so I lacked From ever attaining a Life From here until…

— Nick Kler

“I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.”

— Jennifer Holm

“I’ll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of…

— Cassandra Clare

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of…

— Seneca the Younger

“Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.”

— Pierce Brown

“You can live as a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance .”

— Alan Gratz

“Her breath caught in her throat, for she heard the clatter of death waiting to fall.”

— Kate Danley

I want to love and be loved… I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

— Daniel Mainwaring

In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed.

— Jessica Tarlov

I have learned that grief is a vital part of my heart and accept it as a gift that exists alongside joy.

— Mandy Ingber

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

— Susan Ertz

“The mark of a truly successful life is that at the time of your death, you should have emptied yourself and used…

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Even the birds sing in the face of death But the rest of the world hears only a scream”

— Anonymous

Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.

— Wes Streeting

“Don't come closer to me at any time without make-up. I may slap and make you feel the taste of death.”

— Jeevagan Nagarajan

“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”

— Taylor Caldwell

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

— Oriana Fallaci

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

— Mother Teresa

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

— Socrates

“Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it." Harry Dresden, Death Masks.”

— Jim Butcher