Death Quotes · Page 225

“What happens to anything beautiful? Viy ate it up.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

— Vernon Howard

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

— William Saroyan

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty

— Loesje

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

— Aldous Huxley

When people stop dying, they want to create wealth.

— Josh Ruxin

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

— Samuel Beckett

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

— Lu Yen-hsun

I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, �I only regret that I didn't spend more…

— Dennis Prager

It is proper to grieve, but dont let a spirit of grief control your life.

— Innah Delos Angeles

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

— M. Russell Ballard

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

— Anonymous

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you…

— Marilyn Monroe

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be…

— Martin Amis

If you let someone stab you in the back enough times, eventually you will bleed to death.

— Nikhil Saluja

“For God said, “In that day on which ye shall eat of it, ye shall die by death.” The Lord, therefore, recapitulating…

— The Church Fathers

The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials…

— David Fahrenthold

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not…

— Cicely Saunders

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If being prepared for death entails knowing when and where it will happen, the odds are you will not be prepared. Not…

— Sam Harris

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility…

— Eudora Welty

“The bitterness and alcohol and depression are stripped away from these phantom incarnations, and they console and protect me in death as…

— Christina Baker Kline

There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body.…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

— Saul Bellow

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

“It felt like fighting. It felt like falling. It felt like dying.”

— Kiersten White

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

— Tao Lin

I welcome death for it is the beginning of the next great adventure.

— Anonymous

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Jewish vampires: Starve me to death? Seriously? Then what?”

— Tasha Turner

“I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead.”

— Nadine Gordimer

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

— Jindrich Styrsky

“You’re more afraid to live than you are of death.”

— F.J. Gale

“The death of my child was the death of my own heart.”

— Julianne MacLean

So love the thought of death, love it.

— Anthony de Mello

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

— Joan Didion

The tongue has the power of life and death.

— Solomon

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

— Angela Carter

Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...

— Phillips Brooks