Death Quotes · Page 544

I guess, the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life are deaths of people close to me.

— Guy Burnet

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

— George Bernard Shaw

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

— John Fowles

“I never saw Death before, and now I see That it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”

— Tiruvalluvar

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill…

— Russell Hoban

“Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.”

— Marian Keyes

“Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.”

— Dean Koontz

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks. "Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the…

— Roger Zelazny

I knew what my fatal error was: After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 meters. I could…

— Milkha Singh

We've spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, 'Look, if you…

— Craig Zadan

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you did not have death, you would curse me incessantly for depriving you of it. Realizing its advantages, I have deliberately…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel…

— Jessica Sorensen

“A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk…

— Mitch Albom

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

— Anonymous

“Everything dies, Sam,” Zero said lightly. “It’s the price we pay for being alive.”

— T.J. Klune

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

— Plato

Till my very last breath my love I will protect you and always because death is nothing due to our love

— Anonymous

“And with no hope to hold it in check, grief finally steps out to take its place on the stage.”

— Amie Kaufman

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite.…

— Jim Bishop

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

— Bruce Dickinson

“To move violently and beautifully through skin, to enter matter-isn't that evolution's climax?”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.”

— Brandon Sanderson

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion you are…

— Paritoshik Sharma

“Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line…ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…..(thump)”

— Vizzini

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

— Quentin Crisp

“Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was…

— John Green

I've tried my hardest to forget every connection. Always being the blind villain. My end meets the old curse of death.

— Chiodos

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

— Naveen Patnaik

“Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.”

— Ted Dekker

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

— Dave Eggers

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson