Death Quotes · Page 268

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

— Tupac Shakur

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

— Billy Graham

I was put on death row because of hate.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— Eiji Yoshikawa

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

— Robert Benchley

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

— Arthur Rimbaud

“That is — your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

— Madeline Miller

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

— Charles Taylor

“Days have a sameness. Even new, they offer little beyond weather changes and sudden deaths.”

— Vera Jane Cook

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

“But people you love always die too early, don't they, no matter what age they live to?”

— Nicolas Barreau

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in…

— Aaron Huey

“-And what would you do if you lost a child? -I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I…

— David Bergen

“God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian…

— Martin Luther

Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The usual fiction – that the war would involve precision targeting and the careful avoidance of civilian deaths – was stated by…

— Mark Curtis

If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we…

— Paul Craig Roberts

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of…

— V. S. Naipaul

The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition…

— Thomas Attig

Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

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

— William Saroyan

How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty

— Loesje

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

— Samuel Beckett

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

— Saul Bellow

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

— Kiersten White

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

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

— Tao Lin

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

— Nadine Gordimer

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

“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

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

— Jindrich Styrsky