Death Quotes · Page 481

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

— Galway Kinnell

“Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“When you’re dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you’re not alone”

— Jonathan Larson

“I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse.”

— Pierre Marshesso

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

— David Levithan

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

— William Shakespeare

“Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?”

— Greg Bear

“Death gives you a whole different perspective on life -- Captain Hinchliffe”

— David Dennington

“I now know pain is part of any journey- that this is the opposite of grief, but grief the only way I…

— Kevin Young

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“No death, no suffering. No funeral homes, abortion clinics, or psychiatric wards. No rape, missing children, or drug rehabilitation centers. No bigotry,…

— Randy Alcorn

“We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best.…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How…

— Julie Klassen

“Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything…

— Joan Abelove

“If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.”

— Emil Cioran

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

— W. A. Criswell

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose…

— Ouida

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the…

— Thomas Brooks

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

— Horace

“Death might part our bodies, but it will never part our hearts, our souls. Our love. Love like ours doesn’t die.”

— M. Leighton

“The world is nearing spiritual death, and America is second only to Europe in the digging of its grave - a grave…

— Gail Trebesch Opper

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of…

— Mahmoud Abbas

“Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)”

— Victor Hugo

“We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living." -Winston S. Churchill”

— Robert Lacey

“Magic... Magicians... It's all fading from the world. Dying out. That makes me happy. That means the dragon will be dying too.”

— Hal Barwood Matthew Robbins

My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're…

— Petra Collins

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

— Natalie Babbitt

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.

— Anonymous

I used to be afraid of dying, but now I don't have to be because there is nothing after you die.

— Jeremy Limn

I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.

— Sammy Wilson

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

— S. Jay Olshansky

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

— Paul Celan

Putting his hope in certain death, lowering his head again to the grass.

— Denise Levertov

“needed mothering. Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond”

— M.L. Stedman

“Death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the body was still alive!”

— Anne Fortier

The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.

— Geerhardus Vos

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell…

— George Moses Horton