Death Quotes · Page 515

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

— Jean Racine

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

— Wallace Stevens

“What moves the soul through each death are the keys of humility, desire, choice and prayer.”

— Padma Aon Prakasha

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and…

— Ernest Dimnet

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

— William Ellery Channing

“Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”

— Ali Smith

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe…

— Sam Harris

To know you're apart of the universe, is by knowing your profoundly connected to your surroundings. You know that you're apart of…

— Jeremy Limn

“Our society has a tendency to ignore or diminish the value of the infirm and the frail elderly. Their suffering and physical…

— Raymond Arroyo

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me…

— Elizabeth I

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue…

— Victor Hugo

“Behold, if you are in doubt as to my religion, (know that) I serve not those whom you serve besides Allah, but…

— Compton Gage

“Most people live in fear of some terrible event changing their lives, the death of a loved one or a serious illness.…

— Jamie Weisman

“True sanity entails the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self completely adjusted to our alienated social reality . . .…

— Seth Farber

Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

— Kim Harrison

“Two words would comprehend my future -- death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.”

— Emily Brontë

I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

— Ninni Holmqvist

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

— Isak Dinesen

“Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.”

— Ursula Tillmann

Combine ignorance with technology and you have the perfect formula for destroying humanity...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“And because I was so mute and loved the names of all the words and suddenly am tired unto death please help…

— Stanley Kunitz

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death…

— Elizabeth Edwards

“This is a secret which would have died with me, a secret between two people who don't exist anymore for each other.”

— Ranjani Ramachandran

“Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like…

— George R.R. Martin

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

— Lauryn Hill

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

— Michael Marshall Smith

I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

— Javier Solana

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

— John Thorn

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

— Carl Hiaasen

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

— William Shakespeare

Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.

— Jill Badonsky

“. However, a quiet voice inside her argued that it was worth dying, if death would prove that truth was more powerful…

— Brandon Sanderson

“I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then…

— Colleen Houck

“How ironic it was that mortals, who had the least time of all, were willing to waste so much of it away…

— Tananarive Due

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

— Meg Cabot