Death Quotes · Page 825

“In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this…

— J.D. Robb

“My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find…

— Patrick Reinken

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in…

— Peter Kay

“You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one—except Teela, his shopping companion and health…

— Mitch Albom

“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he…

— William Shakespeare

When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds…

— John Hodgman

“What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much…

— Louis Sachar

“ July 14, 1861 Camp Clark, Washington My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a…

— Sullivan Ballou

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death…

— Robert Crais

“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death…

— Alfred Nestor

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want…

— Mike Birbiglia

“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The…

— China Miéville

“Indulging their every whim and desire, people these days routinely eat and drink to excess and live indiscriminately without restraint or discipline.…

— Ilza Veith

“An engaging discussion upon the nature of the soul, its defining qualities, the possibility it manifests a specific shape, the likelihood of…

— Stephen Wright

“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste…

— William Empson

“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge - Are boundless. Three things are needed…

— Suzy Kassem

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,…

— Mark Helprin

Discrimination, knowledge, non-delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control over the mind and senses, pleasure, pain, birth, death, fear, fearlessness; .

— Bhagavad Gita

“When born (in the future lives) they are attached again to the body (and mind) as Atman, and become subject to lust…

— Kaiten Nukariya

There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves…

— Dorothy Allison

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to…

— Nate

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis…

— Thomas Heywood

“We need to needlessly treat hundreds of people with a mild hypertension to prevent a single death. Since not all people with…

— Dr. Robert A. Hitlin

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in…

— William Hazlitt

“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of…

— Ovid

“I have reveled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and…

— Orson Scott Card

“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with…

— Ryan Gelpke

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting…

— H. L. Mencken

“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this…

— Simone Weil

“In Beirut, death’s unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night’s Russian missiles,…

— Rabih Alameddine

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may…

— William T. Vollmann

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a…

— Irvin D. Yalom

What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow…

— John Armstrong

“In the heat of leadership, with the adrenaline pumping, it is easy to convince yourself that you are not subject to the…

— Ronald A. Heifetz

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas…

— Kinky Friedman

“Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death…

— David S.E. Zapanta

Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for…

— Martin Cruz Smith