Death Quotes · Page 317

“There is always something pleasantly exciting about death—when it is reasonably far away from you.”

— Einar H. Kvaran

“Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about comforting the people they leave behind.”

— Rin Chupeco

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

— Pope John Paul II

“Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead." - Jace - The Mortal Instruments - City Of Bones”

— Cassandra Clare

“ Is this how we make our way to death? Blue wondered. A stumbling fade-out instead of a self-aware finale? ”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

— Harmon Killebrew

“Do not be afraid to fall, be afraid to to land... For no one has ever died from falling they have died…

— Haileigh Horton

“You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you have any idea how lucky you are?”

— Stuart Gibbs

Nobody dies before their time, death is appointed from God. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after…

— Glen Rambharack

“I dreamed you a field of running horses, Selah. For you, Bianca, a balloon the size of the sky, my body a…

— Shane Jones

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to…

— Milarepa

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving…

— Shepard Smith

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in…

— Milan Kundera

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted…

— Liam Neeson

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

“large meta-analysis by Morris Okun and his colleagues have found that volunteering reduces the risk of death by 24 percent.”

— Dalai Lama

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

— John Webster

“Don Marquis: ‘Mayhem, death and arson have followed many a thoughtless kiss not sanctioned by a person.’ There”

— Khushwant Singh

“Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?”

— Sorin Cerin

School can either be a death sentence or a dream come true but really it's up to you...

— Melchor Lim

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

— Bible

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

— Aldous Huxley

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a…

— Michael Winter

Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil.

— Jeremy Limn

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

— Horace

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

— Ovid

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

— Dave Eggers

“In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.”

— Robert Goolrick

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

— Charles Dickens

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

— Seth Lloyd

“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.”

— Steven Ramirez

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle,…

— Jennifer Egan

But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear

— Greek Proverb

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages…

— Robert Poe

“We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?”

— Lindsay J. Pryor

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

— Albert Camus

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.

— Philip Sidney