Death Quotes · Page 477

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”

— Pamela Bone

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is…

— Donal Henahan

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can…

— Walter Scott

“Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.”

— David Markson

There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.

— Ann Coulter

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

— Mario Cuomo

A very small degree of betrayal is sufficient to cause the death of trust.

— Nishan Panwar

“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling…

— George Orwell

Every movie that I'm in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from 'Mirror, Mirror' to 'Mortal Instruments,'…

— Lily Collins

“Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the life everlasting is true, why can it…

— Graham Masterton

“I don't want you to be afraid of dying. All those people have survived cancer. You just watched hundreds of reasons to…

— M. Leighton

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly…

— Sloan Wilson

“Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive…

— Dada Bhagwan

Death of the spirit is the cessation of its communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication…

— Watchman Nee

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you…

— Susan Boyle

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

— Harold Brodkey

“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.”

— John Steinbeck

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

— Michael Dirda

“I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die…

— Charles Bukowski

“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.”

— Dean Koontz

“I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

— Wen Tianxiang

“Though a poison should threaten to kill I know my Savior reigns And when the breezes of death leave a chill I've…

— Citizens

No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

— Akiane Kramarik

Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

— Janet Morris

“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..”

— Hermann Hesse

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

— Nancy Werlin

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

— Gene Simmons

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On…

— Thomas Browne

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real…

— Steve Toltz

“I think death is harder on the people left behind than on the person who died.”

— Jan Benjamin

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and…

— Virgil

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I started dying with my first breath. Why should I fear the transition called death.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

— Gina Lollobrigida

“This flesh in which we live is nothing more than a cocoon, and only when we step out of it do we…

— Nancy Stephan

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

— Grantland Rice