Death Quotes · Page 944

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

— Tom Robbins

“Trout's favorite formula was to describe a perfectly hideous society, not unlike his own, and then, toward the end, to suggest ways…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control…

— Margaret Atwood

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.”

— J.K. Rowling

“You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man,” Ibn Sina said. “A king…

— Noah Gordon

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic…

— Alexander McQueen

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“An accident of birth had signed her death warrant. He could mark her name off his to-do list.”

— Linda Howard

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

— Brian Azzarello

You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon…

— Hanshan

“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

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,…

— Reynolds Price

The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.

— Bion of Smyrna

All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.

— Gwendolyn B. Bennett

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

— Mary Jo Putney

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can…

— Bram Stoker

“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply…

— Dada Bhagwan

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…

— Lewis Mumford

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

— Diogenes Laertius

“Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary…

— William Shakespeare

“Ayara was no saviour tonight. No, she wasn’t a saviour at all. Ayara Drogon was a Shadow Assassin and she was the…

— Ella Fleming-Christie

“I saw life; I thought about death.”

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall…

— Neil Gaiman

“Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you…

— Bill Shankly

I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked…

— Tim Burton

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If…

— Hedy Lamarr

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally…

— Robert Paul Weston

“There has never been a time in the history of the world when a culture has broken so completely with traditional methods…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Your life is death already, though you live And though you see, except that half your time You waste in sleep, and…

— Titus Lucretius Carus

“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”

— Rosie Thomas

I dont want to die, I jsut want to escape the pain.

— Anonymous

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,…

— Cynthia Ozick

“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it…

— James Lee Burke

“xxx it feels to me that...that death is but a thunderstorm. Just wind and noise. You can't ask meaning of such a…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without…

— Muriel Spark

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

— Shirley Bassey

Some lessons in life are best learned through pain and grief.

— Anonymous

“When friends asked how he was coping with his spectacular loss, he would say, ‘I sleep like a baby – I wake…

— Siobhan Creaton

“In the midst of death we are in life”

— John Marsden