Death Quotes · Page 266

It isn't that you can't cheat death, it's that death can't cheat you.

— John Alejandro King

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

— Jenny Downham

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

— John Selden

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

— Charles de Secondat

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

— Carlos Castaneda

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

— David Gemmell

“Nothing mortal makes last; nothing the gods make endures forever.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

— William Shakespeare

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much…

— Jose Saramago

Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.

— Jill Badonsky

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

— William Shakespeare

“I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then…

— Colleen Houck

“. However, a quiet voice inside her argued that it was worth dying, if death would prove that truth was more powerful…

— Brandon Sanderson

The supernatural world, the sci-fi world - they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death.

— Julie Plec

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

— Meg Cabot

“How ironic it was that mortals, who had the least time of all, were willing to waste so much of it away…

— Tananarive Due

“After Megan's death, Tyler spiraled downward into an abyss of steely blankness, as if Megan were the only color in his life,…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying…

— Greg Iles

Dont ever let my laugh fool you, theres a lot of pain behind these troubled eyes. they have shed tears from people…

— Anonymous

“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It…

— Alan Hinkes

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and…

— Charles Wesley

“MADELINE SHEEHAN WILL BE PUBLISHING ALL HER BOOKS IN ALL FORMATS FROM NOW UNTIL HER UNTIMELY DEATH BY HEART ATTACK (AT A…

— Madeline Sheehan

“A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these…

— Gina Lake

First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a…

— Steve Mason

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

— Ivan Illich

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't cry after my death . with smiling face send me to heaven.”

— yakoobkhan

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

— DH Lawrence

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

— Sandra Cisneros

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

— Propertius

Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

— Joan Rivers

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

— Carmen Boullosa

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

— Alfred Jarry

“You're never so alive as when you're on the verge of death.”

— Simon Kernick

You can only deny your talents, but they live with you untill you die.

— Terry Mark

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

— George R. R. Martin

“her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both.”

— Edna O'Brien

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Life is short, misery sure, mortality certain.”

— Ray Bradbury

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

— Alan Ball