Death Quotes · Page 312

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

— Josephine Lawrence

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

— Dietrich Mateschitz

“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

… "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

— Anne Fortier

“all men go when they know the hour of their death is nigh.” The man grinned at me. “We are going to…

— Edward M. Knight

Today is Ash Wednesday, a day when we contemplate our mortality. I rubbed my cancer scar, said a prayer of thanks and…

— Anonymous

When mediocrity becomes the accepted norm, excellence dies a painful death.

— Rashida Rowe

“Freedom isn’t just about getting to make your own choices. It’s about getting to enjoy the life you’re given, to live life…

— Courtney Allison Moulton

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself…

— Stella Adler

“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part…

— Gerald Heaney

“They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father…

— Stephen King

“The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist,…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the…

— Petrarch

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their…

— Leo Buscaglia

Math is fun, it teaches you life and death information, like when you're cold, you should go to a corner since it's…

— Anonymous

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

— Hermione Lee

“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

— Anonymous

“Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much.…

— K.W. Jeter

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

— Thomas Mann

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare

“life is a gift, death is an obligation, both are equally important to be able to get good grades”

— friesda Tobing

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and…

— Paracelsus

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

— Daniel Keyes

“Death’s fingers drummed impatiently on the scytheblade, like a mouse tapdancing on a tin.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The people make light of dying because of the greatness of their labours in seeking for the means of living.”

— Lao Tzu

“Surrender," the Prince said. "It will not happen." "SURRENDER!" the Prince shouted. "DEATH FIRST!”

— William Goldman

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

— George Carlin

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

— William Wordsworth

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

— Anonymous

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

— Frank Herbert

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

— Henry Scott Holland

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

— Walter Scott

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

— Zelda Popkin

Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.

— Charles Olson

“When you are constantly in pursuit of security, you are in pursuit of death, because life is never secure. It doesn’t matter…

— Sadhguru

Long after the last canons fire and the last bombs do BOOM the trees and the flowers will continue to bloom. à

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

— Leonid Andreyev