Death Quotes · Page 342

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.”

— John Keats

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

— Sun Bin

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left…

— Simon Sinek

Im not upset that our relationship is dying. I'm upset because your doing nothing to save it

— Ritu Ghatourey

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

— George Carlin

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name…

— Dan B. Allender

“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over,…

— John Betjeman

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

— Lynn Caine

“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“BIRTH IS REPEATING THE SAME PLEASURE AGAIN AND AGAIN DEATHLESSLY; DEATH IS REPEATING THE SAME PAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN ENDLESSLY; PLEASURE IS…

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Your_Angel is slowly dying and she can't help it...she has lost the most important person in her life and she isn't coping.…

— Nikki

“I knew people were dying around me on the railway but I didn't really want to know. It was too dispiriting. It…

— Alistair Urquhart

“Oh, Jeannie, I am so glad you woke me. I was having the worst nightmare. I felt like I was suffocating. I…

— Jeannie Walker

“The kiss. Oh, the kiss. What a perfect, unnerving, luscious kiss. He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could…

— Chelsie Shakespeare

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

— Petrarch

“Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I…

— Sapan Saxena

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

— Roger Ebert

In case I'll be gone today, just always remember that every moment we spent altogether is always one of the best days…

— Anonymous

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality…

— Gary Shteyngart

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

— Plato

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

— Terry Pratchett

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

— Ingrid Betancourt

“For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;”

— Teresa of Ávila

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

— Faye Kellerman

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

— Jane Austen

“Dying isn't the only way into the Underworld, but it's the safest." Well, that sounded like an oxymoron if I'd ever heard…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing…

— Roger Ebert

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

— Charles Bukowski

“I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“If we feel that our life has no meaning, that means we are already dead.”

— Mihail Militaru

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

— Alexander Pope

“My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my…

— Christine Fonseca

“I had started in this career, in part, to pursue death: to grasp it, uncloak it, and see it eye-to-eye, unblinking.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

— John Dryden

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

“Only one person had ever captured Erich and kept him, and that person held him captive even in death.”

— Megan Derr

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

— George Meredith

“Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem…

— Denis Johnson