Death Quotes · Page 427

“Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.”

— Theocritus

“Intent on their small extinctions, they are ignorant of the greater death going on all around them.”

— Guy Haley

“The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe.”

— David Grann

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

— H. L. Mencken

“Once again, he wondered why all his talents involved violence and death. He”

— Ethan Cross

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves that…

— Zoe Akins

“Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself…

— Donna Tartt

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae…

— Ovid

I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been…

— Frankie J. Grande

“One minute walking along, the next minute dead. Why?" THINK OF IT BEING MORE... DIMENSIONALLY DISADVANTAGED. "Yes. I know." Beano relaxed, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awaken’d from the dream of life; ’Tis we, who lost…

— Cassandra Clare

“The last few months were filled with fear and self-pity. I began to contemplate suicide with increasing regularity, yet I was afraid…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth,…

— Phil Wohl

One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as…

— Molly Ivins

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of…

— Gore Vidal

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

— Hannah Arendt

This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things…

— Anonymous

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but…

— Frank Herbert

In a few moments the rest of my life, I head in your lap when death came to me

— Mak_786

“Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.”

— Abraham Verghese

“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.”

— Lian Hearn

“Those who are not afraid to die doing what they love, their death will taste like pleasure to them...”

— Pedro Acevedo

“whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men…

— Oscar Wilde

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident…

— Emma Curtis Hopkins

I've long been obsessed with the fantastical and sometimes unbelievable story of the life and death of Rasputin.

— Richard Herring

“It isn’t death that’s scary. It’s living without actually living at all, breathing without purpose, existing without essence.”

— Kandi Steiner

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

— Anonymous

“Mortals have perfected the art of not seeing what they don't expect to be there.”

— Julie Kagawa

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

— Charlie Munger

“All world believers of righteousness are required to pladge allegiance to Allah!”

— Compton Gage

“The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.

— William Shakespeare

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

— Margaret Deland

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

— Thomas Troward

“All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.”

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

— Al Seckel