Death Quotes · Page 548

“Those who have gone before us, now rest peacefully in their graves as their permanent home.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There'll be two dates on your tombstone everyone will read them..but the only thing that matters is the little [ dash between…

— Anonymous

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

— John Bright

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the…

— Justin Halpern

“Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?”

— Sorin Cerin

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

— Lu Xun

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if weanswer it in the affirmative, ifwe accept it…

— Hermann Hesse

“I didn't know the exact trajectory of my breakdown, but I did know that I'd become weak, holding onto wildness, cherishing the…

— Jardine Libaire

“anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves.…

— Scott Lynch

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Only those who will love longer than they expected to can truly love pecan pie, which doesn't explain its status as death…

— Kate Lebo

“He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to…

— Stephen King

“Death does not come when the body is too exausted to live.Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be…

— Michael Lee

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must…

— James A. Baldwin

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

— Tom Robbins

Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively…

— Saint Dominic

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero…

— Michele Bachmann

“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”

— C.J. Redwine

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social…

— Derek Jarman

“ It doesn't have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It…

— Stephen King

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and…

— Sue Grafton

Knowledge of life brings confidence. Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The animal part of his mind wasn’t made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.”

— Hugh Howey

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”

— Holly Black

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”

— Helen Grant

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

— Sissy Spacek

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when…

— Julius Evola

“What if the most courageous thing you do is hold a dying person's hand? That would be enough.”

— Nicki Salcedo

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid…

— Mencius

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath,

— Fiona Apple

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

— Elizabeth Warren

Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of…

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Build Back Better did not make the finish line; it stumbled right at the ribbon. And its death, by the way, is…

— Will Cain

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

— Gayle Forman

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let…

— Larry Kramer