Death Quotes · Page 404

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

— Ingrid Betancourt

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Plato

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

— Teresa of Ávila

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

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

— Faye Kellerman

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

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm waiting for you, but you never show up. I go in search to find you, my love. My heart is broken…

— Leslie

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful…

— Rohinton Mistry

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as…

— Ernest Becker

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death…

— Dalai Lama

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department.…

— Scott Adams

“The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his…

— Philippa Gregory

“All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying…

— Greg Iles

Dont ever let my laugh fool you, theres a lot of pain behind these troubled eyes. they have shed tears from people…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Christine Fonseca

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Mihail Militaru

“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

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

— John Dryden

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

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

“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

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

— Adam B. Ford

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

— Theodore Parker

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

— Denis Johnson

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

— Stendhal

“because a surfeit of sexual activity at an early age was believed to lead to an early death.”

— Sylvia Barbara Soberton

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

— John Keats

“We are a handful of dust in God’s image Before we return again to dusty grave Life isn’t a war, it’s a…

— Justin Wetch

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“It felt as if Death was lurking about in my soul, searching for something to feed on.”

— Brett Biaggio

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

— Naveen Patnaik

“Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a…

— Jackson Pearce

“How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?”

— Dorianne Laux

“Every now and then when I Long for death to ease my pain Long for death but do not die But live…

— Mohamed Hazem