Death Quotes · Page 397

Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.

— Ramon Llull

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

— Anonymous

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

— John Waters

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

— Edvard Munch

“people forget that those who rush to every sweet fruit of life rush to death, too.”

— Anonymous

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

— Brad Blanton

“some of his students and colleagues from Oklahoma. They gathered together the death certificates from residents of the town, going back as”

— Malcolm Gladwell

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

— David Niven

“What's the use of crying, and retching, and belching, all day long, like your lady downstairs? Life has its sad side, and…

— Hope Mirrlees

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so…

— Clint Smith

“This is what love is. Not the moments on the beach, or under the stars or the trees, or in the moonlight.…

— Carolee Dean

“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one…

— Hope Edelman

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Evidence for this theory comes from the finding that every species seems to have a genetically determined maximum lifespan. While the average…

— Aisha Utz

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on…

— Anne Frank

“Did God get out of bed one morning and draw back the curtains (Reggie's imaginary God led a very domesticated life) and…

— Kate Atkinson

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

— Plato

“Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it.”

— Toba Beta

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah…

— Umar

“It is imperative that we die empty. That is the mark of a life well invested.”

— CLEMENT OGEDEGBE

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. --from WHEN DEATH COMES”

— Mary Oliver

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me…

— William Butler Yeats

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

— Henry Cloud

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades…

— Jesus Christ

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

— Richard Brautigan

What haunts me more than anything else is the prospect of looking back at my life come my death and saying: I…

— Jonathan Clivaz

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

“What's it like?" "Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.”

— Anonymous

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

— Simon Travaglia

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

— Margaret Mahy

“…But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.”

— John McGahern

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things…

— Lauren Oliver

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

— Thomas Browne

“The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.”

— Markus Zusak

“For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of…

— Dean Cavanagh

How do you plan to celebrate your yearly milestone that marks your race towards old age and death? Haha. Just kidding. Have…

— Anonymous

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

— Pierce Brosnan