Death Quotes · Page 324

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.”

— Rachel Caine

“We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.”

— Julian Short

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

— Reid Hoffman

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my…

— Anne Sexton

I don't wanna stand beside you. I don't wanna try and feel the pain you're going through, Till the death you'll see…

— Bullet For My Valentine

Do not fear death... only the unlived life. You don't have to live forever; You just have to live.

— Natalie Babbitt

“If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”

— Ryan Holiday

“As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this…

— Hope Mirrlees

“A young woman doctor had broken the news to her that she had cancer. She had been very gentle, very sympathetic. ‘Sit…

— Ann Cleeves

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an…

— Ric Keller

“You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for…

— Jeanette Winterson

The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Among advocates for life after death, nobody even tries to sit down and do the hard work of explaining how the basic…

— Sean M. Carroll

“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death.…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

— Arthur Schnitzler

“this life is a kind of preparatory school for the great life that is awaiting us beyond death and time.”

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Two puzzles that cannot be solved: The miracle of birth and misery of death.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The wilds are truly unforgiving, and while injury isn’t a surefire ride unto the end, it often grants the swiftest accommodations.”

— Trent Lindsey

“For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.

— Oscar Wilde

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

— George Washington

“talking of death is like talking of money— we neither know the price or the worth,”

— Anonymous

All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

— Bruce R. McConkie

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

— Admiral Yi Sun Shin

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

— Andrea Dworkin

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every…

— Veronica Roth

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

— William Osler

“The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of…

— Cornell Woolrich

Till Death Do Us Party,' I think we put out a great pop album that we recorded in like three days, and…

— Adore Delano

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

— Lian Hearn

I am acting in a film based on Abheek Barua's 'City of Death.' It is a dark story that sifts through many…

— Pooja Bhatt

“Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.”

— Theognis of Megara

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

— Robert Lowell

“No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.”

— Charles Allen

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,

— Walt Whitman

“You don't know the day of your death, therefore live a determined diligent daring life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Immortality doesn't fit with death, as mortal doesn't fit with eternity.”

— Toba Beta