Death Quotes · Page 419

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

— Ryan Adams

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the…

— Thornton Wilder

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

— Myles Munroe

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

— George Lucas

Eath isn't the most painful loss in life. The most painful loss in life is what dies inside us while we're still…

— Anonymous

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the…

— Colleen Atwood

“Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.”

— Sue Grafton

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet…

— Simon Schama

“Now, though, in Marin, Saeed prayed even more, several times a day, and he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for…

— Mohsin Hamid

“But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both…

— J.P. Donleavy

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as…

— Joe Queenan

Ya Allah, if you were to take me in my solat, take me as a believer I pray that the angel of…

— Boonaa Mohammed

“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor of time nor of history nor of…

— Milan Kundera

“Each of us, in the journey through mortality, will travel his own Jericho Road. What will be your experience? What will be…

— Thomas S. Monson

“In all his forty-eight years upon this earth, Barry Flynn was certain of only two things. One: death always trumped life, and…

— LA LA LA

“Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/police officers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens? Why do cops kill? Are…

— Obiora Embry

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

“Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a…

— Ben Fountain

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

— Anonymous

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

— Anselm of Canterbury

“Though one were strong as seven, He too with death shall dwell, Nor wake with wings in heaven, Nor weep for pains…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

— Anonymous

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

— Evelyn Anthony

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

— Garth Brooks

“It should be a lot harder, but the more I’m around death, the more it just becomes a part of life. I’m…

— Colleen Hoover

Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born.

— Samael Aun Weor

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

— Gore Vidal

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

— Herman Melville

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

— Anonymous

“I believe love conquers hate, faith overcomes despair, and that life is stronger than death." Wickedly They Come”

— Cathrina Constantine

Being a caretaker for someone who's dying was really, really hard at 25.

— Michelle Zauner

“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might…

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

— Armand Borel

“We do not have control over many things in life and death but we do have control over the meaning we give…

— Nathalie Himmelrich

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

— A. A. Gill

“Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the “death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God.”1”

— John Ortberg Jr

I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of…

— Shavo Odadjian

I'm dying, I sleep and wake up paradoxically that is love. Like the stars exploding.

— Jeremy Limn

“We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all…

— Nadege Richards