Death Quotes · Page 867

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans…

— Tammy Bruce

“Back when I was a regular mortal kid, I didn't know much about combat. I had some murky ideas that armies would…

— Rick Riordan

“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You…

— Aliette de Bodard

It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that…

— Charles Webster Leadbeater

The point is not that the resurrection is the price paid for our sins. The point point is that the resurrection proves…

— John Piper

“When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief…

— Colleen Hoover

“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in…

— Christopher Hitchens

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness,…

— John Fowles

“If love feels like death I died. If love feels like death I'm a killer. I failed every time I tried, but…

— Dushawn Banks

I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too…

— Dave Grohl

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…

— William Shakespeare

“In paradise there is nothing to say. Eden was sacrificed not for the pleasure of a fruit, but for the pleasure of…

— Benjamin Hale

“Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that…

— Patrick O'Brian

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in…

— Harlan Ellison

“Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death.…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one’s desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very…

— Sam Harris

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as…

— Harriet Martineau

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.…

— John Piper

“Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we…

— Donna Tartt

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us…

— William E. Gladstone

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who…

— Martin Luther

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house…

— Adam Clarke

“Jules: Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We…

— Cassandra Clare

“Mrs. Held came toward them, then suddenly stopped, leaned over to inhale the scent of a crimson rose, and declared, “We shall…

— Magda Szabó

“And it's also clear that what I felt yesterday, that stupid "dissolving in the universe", if you take it to its limit,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a…

— Mario Botta

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys…

— Anne Enright

“An interesting thing happened today,” she said, giving me just enough time to get the word “hi” out of my mouth. “I…

— John Connolly

“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle…

— Stewart Stafford

So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins…

— John Stott

The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and…

— Andrey Illarionov

“She prayed while you were raping me?” I ask him. “It isn’t rape,” he says. “Stop saying that. You’re a fool to…

— Philippa Gregory

“. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree,…

— Dennis Potter

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima…

— Edward Abbey

“He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always…

— Georgi Vladimov

“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed…

— Honoré de Balzac

“There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of…

— Richard Brautigan