Death Quotes · Page 463

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

— Ilkin Santak

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face…

— Richard Wright

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

— Peter Stone

“Was it worth it? My death, I mean. Did I die for something worthwhile?”

— Elizabeth Carlton

“Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different when they’re gone.”

— Eileen Wilks

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

— Emily Dickinson

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

— Aldo Leopold

“Linda was dying in company - in company and with all modern conveniences.”

— Aldous Huxley

“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous…

— M.J. Nicholls

You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as…

— Jules Furthman

“It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to…

— Kate Morton

“This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would…

— Darren Shan

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the…

— Friedrich Schiller

“When my lover and I fuck, we fuck with the fear of the world in us. We are fucking on the edge…

— Zinzi Clemmons

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love,…

— Julian of Norwich

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by…

— Jennifer Armintrout

Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Jim Butcher

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

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Oriana Fallaci

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

— Taylor Caldwell

“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

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

— Wes Streeting

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

— Anonymous

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

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

— Susan Ertz

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

— Mandy Ingber

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

— Daniel Mainwaring

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

— Kate Danley

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

— Alan Gratz

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

— Pierce Brown

“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

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

— Jennifer Holm

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

— Nick Kler