Death Quotes · Page 89

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. ( We are but dust and shadow. )”

— Horace

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

— Luc de Clapiers

You might say that death has relaxed me.

— Isaac Marion

“Death often is the point of life's joke.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

— Michelangelo

He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

The title of my story is death ,and the word as its weapon !

— MLY AB

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

— Jacqueline Cochran

“When you are dead and buried Do your thoughts and memories bubble to the surface?”

— Richard L. Ratliff

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ…

— E. M. Forster

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.

— Pope John XXIII

“Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.”

— H.G. Wells

When Death puts out our flame the snuff will tell - If we were wax or tallow, by the smell.

— Anonymous

After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

— Aliko Dangote

The Qur'an says that every soul must taste of death. None of us can escape that, but for you there is no…

— Louis Farrakhan

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to…

— Frederick Lenz

“Kako se ono zovete? SMRT. (...) - Ne mogu tvrditi da sam čuo za tu tvrtku - rekao je Lezek. - A…

— Terry Pratchett

“The sky was so heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Emotions, like the tongue, can bless us or destroy us. Proverbs 18:21 says life and death are in the power of the…

— Lynn R Davis

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would…

— Robert McNamara

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are…

— Cathy O'Neil

“Death becomes the key that unlocks the door where the beauty and meaning of every living moment can be found. If we…

— Allan Hamilton

When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering…

— Kehinde Wiley

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

— Janeane Garofalo

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

— Graham Greene

“Death is our wedding with eternity.”

— Rumi

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

— Barbara Stanwyck

“... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.”

— Richard Wright

“And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?”

— Franz Wright

“His skin was blotched as a dying banana.”

— David Mitchell

Death is something we can't run away from but we can embrace it.

— Christopher

“The local dealers were cutting their coke with crystal meth”

— Edward Williams

The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

— Anonymous

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

— Anonymous

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.

— Charles Hodge

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

— Hal Holbrook

“She was brave from excess of grief”

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.

— Portuguese Proverb