Death Quotes · Page 293

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

— Dorothy Norman

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to…

— Virginia Woolf

“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have…

— Charles Bukowski

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

— Anne Rice

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

— Dante Alighieri

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

— Irving Kristol

“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”

— Mitch Albom

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:…

— Anonymous

When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be…

— Cormac McCarthy

God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image…

— Jürgen Moltmann

What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of…

— Yukio Mishima

“Many of us think of people who lobby for pure water and pure food as food faddists or health nuts. We call…

— Carol Simontacchi

“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, You'll come…

— Frederic Weatherly

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for…

— Christopher Pike

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the…

— Flannery O'Connor

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

— Tamora Pierce

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

— John Grisham

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

— Patrick Pearse

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

— William C. Bryant

“The line between life and death is a couple of inches at most. The width of a door that connects two rooms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”

— Temple Grandin

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce…

— William Bradford

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

— Sophocles

We're going to be better from our losses and from the adversity we've faced.

— Auston Matthews

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year…

— Marcia Wallace

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

— Tom Hanks

How could death be the tragedy of life…when life is a woman's gift death is a God's gift…

— Santanu Mishra

“Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.”

— Ann Aguirre

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

— Karen Traviss

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

— James Poniewozik

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

— Rabindranath Tagore

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

— Hannah More

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

— Andrew Marvell

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

— Diane de Poitiers

“You’re a sick son of a bitch. I’m your judge and jury. I find you guilty as charged and the sentence is…

— Rhonda R. Dennis

“We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.”

— Wallace Stevens

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

— Terrell Owens