Death Quotes · Page 419

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

— John Dryden

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

— Dean Potter

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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

— Kirsty Jones

“Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families.…

— Harold Kushner

Wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God…

— Bible

“If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory…

— Helen Keller

“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“There is no soft cushion there is only free falling into dying that is now that is forever it can’t be stopped…

— Tai Sheridan

“Odasaku," Dazai said softly. "Forgive me for the absurd wording, but—don't go. Find something to rely on. Expect good things to happen…

— Kafka Asagiri

“Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The…

— Lynsay Sands

“The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking…

— Rick Riordan

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

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

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Veronica Roth

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

— Stanislav Grof

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

— Terry Pratchett

Life is a bitch death is her sister sleep is the cousin where the fuckin family picture

— Lil Wayne

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the…

— James Thurber

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all…

— Nevil Shute

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

— Roberto Bolaño

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

— Megan Phelps-Roper

“What disease would keep you alive, even when you're promised death? A disease kills. A miracle saves.”

— K. Weikel

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

— Bob Goff

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

— Anonymous

Lead me from unreal to real;lead me from darkness to light;lead me from death to immortality. Om...peace...peace...peace...

— Upanishadic Mantra

If I was a judge I'd give strangers the death penalty for eating with their mouths open.

— Nikhil Saluja

People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.

— Tony Bellew

The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death.

— Ilkin Santak

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become…

— Francesca Lia Block

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

— Mason Cooley

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”

— Janice Hardy

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell