Death Quotes · Page 316

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

— Mark Twain

“The craziest and meanest thing death ever did was to snatch life away from those who were at their edge of breakthrough.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

— Penelope Cruz

“Imagine urself waking up & finding urself inside that roar of rockets, bombardment & death symphony played by the howling of weepings.”

— Bela Anĝelo

“If I am marching to my death, then I will march to it as a girl. Without fear.”

— Renee Ahdieh

Boy Better Know, when we die, people are going to realise that we are just seven guys who just, like, try to…

— Skepta

“Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.”

— Loretta Chase

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to…

— Kit Bond

“You don’t get to choose from a menu of tragedies and losses, don’t get to consider which you can survive and which…

— Sophie Littlefield

“With the news about Andy, it was like someone had thrown an x-ray switch and reversed everything into photographic negative, so that…

— Donna Tartt

“After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can…

— Nina

“The key to faking deaths is a fine appreciation of arterial spray patterns. I have found that blood bags work very well…

— Kevin Hearne

“This is a house that hasn’t seen a new soul in half a century. The walls are saturated with her; the floorboards…

— Darcy Coates

“This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you…

— Philippa Gregory

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

— Joseph Campbell

“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”

— Aberjhani

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.

— Simon Wiesenthal

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and…

— Walter Willett

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

“Wanting to die with a dead partner might not be a show of love but more of a show of dependency.”

— Chidi Ejeagba

“She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated…

— R.L. Griffin

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

— Patrick Ness

“Oh, you know...staring down fear, laughing in the face of death, taking a ride in Hell, and in general, testing the waters…

— Jenn Cooksey

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his…

— Khalil Gibran

Though I bleed profusely due to the vacum you left in my heart but I am stronger today because you loved me.

— Elias E-Elliot

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

— Ann Brashares

“Admiral,” he said.  He couldn't resist.  “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

— Christopher Nuttall

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

— William Shakespeare

“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now…

— John Green

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.”

— Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”

— William Shakespeare

“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”

— Anonymous

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

— Terry Pratchett

If my thermometer had been an inch longer, I would have frozen to death.

— Anonymous

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…

— Epictetus

It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.

— Cass Sunstein