Death Quotes · Page 426

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

— Shanna Moakler

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

— Ian Mcewan

“That is what dying is: a pull to the ground. I am thin as a shadow, yet clotted as dough, my blood…

— Sonya Hartnett

If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.

— Friedl And The Children Of Terezin

'She murdered sleep' - on the death of Agatha Christie in 1976 (please verify)

— Nancy Banks-Smith

The only label I want to wear in this life is the one that says: In case of death, please send to…

— Laura S

What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.

— Anjanette Comer

“Blue doesn't desbribe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray.”

— Ellery Adams

“There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work…

— Rebecca Serle

“definitions belong to the definer, not the defined, & I no longer wished to have my life & death foretold by others.…

— Richard Flanagan

“Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible…

— Mary Ann Evans

“A bomb here and a bullet there A bomb here and a bullet there, A wall riddled with bullets everywhere, A man…

— Javid Ahmad Tak

“The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager…

— Kevin Hearne

There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at…

— Richard P. Feynman

What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as…

— Jeff Pinkner

“Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.…

— Tegan Quin

You don't know how much I am dying inside and how much I just want to kill myself right now :/

— Savannah J

“Every second of everyday I still love them, and I won’t believe they are dead until I see it for myself.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

— Randolph M. Nesse

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

— H. W. Brands

“So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.”

— Michelle A. Lammers

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

— Candy Lightner

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must…

— Margaret of Cortona

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

— Neil Jordan

“Is dirt nice? Is death nice? Above all is dying nice? And, in the end, we must ask, is God nice? I…

— Whittaker Chambers

“This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent.”

— Abigail Roux

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

— Peter Morgan

Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better…

— Doug Stanhope

“Hadie was my everything. She was the only thing I had to look forward to when the one thing I'd looked forward…

— Komal Kant

“[From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good…

— Robyn Davidson

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death…

— Troy King

“Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.”

— Pindar

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

— Rob McKenna

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

— Heather Dorff

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

— Kevyn Aucoin

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

— Robert Green Ingersoll